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Antitrust
Antitrust
Overview
In any political and economic climate, antitrust matters demand a unique and adept synthesis of diverse skills, applying complex legal principles to an ever-changing business and regulatory landscape. The present climate demands even more. The current Department of Justice (DOJ) has specifically disavowed the antitrust policies and approaches of its predecessor and announced the arrival of an era of “vigorous” enforcement. And, the DOJ and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) are closely aligned on antitrust matters, another distinction from the prior administration. Success in this environment involves understanding the law well enough to anticipate its evolution and understanding the client’s business well enough to apply these evolving legal standards.
On this high-stakes, risk-inherent playing field, V&E’s lawyers are uniquely well positioned. We routinely represent clients in matters including those resulting in civil and criminal litigation cases in federal and state courts, as well as in investigations and enforcement matters before the FTC and the Antitrust Division of the DOJ, the Attorney General of several states, and federal regulatory agencies. Additionally, our Antitrust lawyers regularly counsel domestic and international clients on highly complex mergers, acquisitions, and competitor collaborations, filing numerous pre-merger notifications under merger control regimes around the world and seeing those transactions through to successful closings.
Our competition lawyers are experienced trial lawyers, having won summary judgments and take-nothing defense verdicts in multi-million dollar, bet-the-company cases, and conversely obtained, on a contingent fee basis. Our record includes the largest antitrust jury verdict of its time — a $1.035 billion judgment with a net amount of $425 million ultimately received by the client, on a contingent fee basis, for a coal slurry pipeline against the one railroad that had not settled. V&E’s Antitrust team also includes lawyers with significant government regulatory experience with the FTC and the DOJ, and we are among the leading firms assisting clients with hundreds of Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) pre-merger notifications filed during the last decade alone.
Scope of Practice
In the U.S., V&E lawyers have represented clients involved in every aspect of the oil and gas industry (from exploration to the gasoline pump and the burner tip), petrochemicals, manufacturing, grocery stores, transportation, insurance, real estate, health care, utility, agricultural, communications, retail, and technology industries. We also assist clients in obtaining pre-merger clearance before the European Commission and competition agencies in Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Mexico, Poland, South Korea, Turkey, and Ukraine. We have worked with clients on cutting-edge issues such as group purchasing, class actions, issues at the interface of intellectual property and antitrust, joint ventures, potential ownerships, and others. To learn more about V&E’s antitrust expertise in your specific area of concern, please review a sampling of our representative matters in:
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
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