To succeed in product distribution, strategic alliances and joint ventures, clients need an accurate antitrust roadmap and creative, practical suggestions for how to achieve their business goals.

Years of diverse private sector, government, and academic experience make our antitrust group well qualified to tackle any counseling problem. Our team includes attorneys with several years of counseling large and small corporations in a variety of industries.

Together, we have:

• Advised companies wishing to collaborate with competitors, suppliers, or customers in undertaking joint research, development, production, or marketing ventures and in bids for government contracts
• Provided assistance concerning product pricing and distribution, including policies that address pricing by downstream distributors and retailers and that establish territorial and customer limitations in distributor and retailer agreements
• Assisted biotech clients by drafting intellectual property licensing agreements and advising consumer technology clients about patent pooling agreements
• Helped trade associations form membership policies, gather and disseminate industry statistics and advocate for public policy change
• Designed general antitrust compliance programs and audits and conducted internal investigations to determine exposure for specific suspected activities
• Offered counsel on pre-merger antitrust issues, structuring transactions to reduce risks and satisfying Hart-Scott-Rodino pre-merger notification requirements
• Evaluated antitrust immunities and defenses, including foreign sovereign immunity, statutory defenses, state action limitations on antitrust liability, and Noerr-Pennington immunity
• Evaluated clients' claims against competitors, suppliers or customers regarding merger or joint venture activities, product pricing or distribution, standard-setting activities, and predatory business conduct