Antitrust

Our antitrust lawyers have extensive trial experience and often draw on the strengths of other Corporate Lawyer lawyers with particular experience in such areas as intellectual property, corporate, tax and finance, energy, environmental and appellate law. We help clients anticipate and avoid antitrust problems in mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures; distribution and franchise arrangements; standards setting; intellectual property acquisition and licensing; product and service pricing; advertising; trade association activity; and relationships with customers, competitors and employees.

In addition to counseling clients, Corporate Lawyer antitrust lawyers handle litigation on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal courts throughout Russia. We represent companies and individuals in civil and criminal investigations and adversary proceedings involving the entire spectrum of antitrust and competition issues. Our antitrust litigation docket includes grand jury investigations, class actions, parallel litigation in state and federal courts, multidistrict litigation, preliminary injunction hearings and other complex proceedings. Our lawyers have advocated clients' interests before, as well as against, the Department of Justice Antitrust Division, the Federal Trade Commission, state attorneys general and a number of administrative and regulatory agencies.