In today’s complex marketplace, businesses face unprecedented antitrust and competition challenges across multiple jurisdictions. Duane Morris’ Antitrust and Competition Group provides sophisticated counsel to protect competitive positions, navigate regulatory complexities and achieve strategic objectives while managing risk.

NAVIGATING AN EVOLVING ANTITRUST LANDSCAPE

Antitrust and competition levels are rapidly evolving, presenting new challenges and opportunities for business leaders. Our team provides creative solutions across regions and industries, guiding clients through complex litigation, merger clearances, investigations and strategic business planning.

Range of Services

Antitrust Litigation Strategy

Defending against antitrust class actions and litigating bet-the-company scenarios with a track record of trial victories, succeeding on dispositive motion, defeating class certification and achieving favorable settlements. Our seasoned antitrust litigators employ a proactive, creative and practical approach to litigation—and we leverage our collective knowledge and experience through a team-based approach, striving to minimize exposure and to work efficiently towards successful resolution for our clients. We are fierce litigators with decades of experience defending clients on the full spectrum of antitrust claims, including consumer class actions, competitor disputes and administrative litigation across a wide variety of industries.

Services Provided

  • Civil antitrust litigation
  • Class action defense
  • Government enforcement actions
  • Criminal antitrust defense
  • Cartel investigations

Enforcement and Merger Clearance

Achieving resolutions to difficult enforcement proceedings and obtaining clearance for high-profile, industry-transforming combinations. Our antitrust team has a deep understanding of enforcement mechanisms having experience litigating both for and against key antitrust enforcers, including the Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general. We have intimate knowledge of the investigative process and leverage a strategic approach to regulatory challenges with a proven track record of success.

Services Provided

  • Hart-Scott-Rodino filings and clearance
  • Second Request compliance
  • Transaction structuring
  • Joint venture formation

Proactive and Practical Compliance

Counseling on critical business decisions while mitigating risk and navigating complex, ever-changing antitrust and competition enforcement across federal, state and international government agencies. We leverage a deep understanding of complex antitrust laws, diverse industry experience and the ability to provide strategic, practical counseling to clients across a range of competitive issues while staying up to date on the latest antitrust developments.

Services Provided

  • Compliance programs and audits
  • Business strategies and contract drafting
  • Trade association participation

Industry Insight

The Duane Morris team has extensive experiencing advising clients in wide range of industries, including:

For More Information

For additional information, please contact Sharon L. Caffrey, Stephen H. Sutro, Sean P. McConnell or any of the group members referenced in the Attorney Listing.