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Cadwalader’s Antitrust Practice Group consists of market-leading practitioners who represent domestic and foreign clients with antitrust issues relating to mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private and agency litigation, grand jury investigations, and corporate counseling. We pride ourselves on providing state-of-the-art antitrust advice with an emphasis on finding practical business solutions to complex legal issues. The Antitrust Group consists of numerous former government officials, including a former Assistant Attorney General of the Antitrust Division at the U.S. Department of Justice, the former Chief of the National Criminal Antitrust Enforcement Section of the Antitrust Division, and former merger enforcement attorneys from U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
Mergers & Acquisitions
We regularly advise and represent clients in connection with complex mergers and acquisitionsin a wide-variety of industries, both domestically and abroad. We have represented both buyers and sellers in some of the most high-profile transactions of the past decade. Our antitrust lawyers work closely with Cadwalader’s leading corporate department to provide seamless and sophisticated advice.
In recent years, the group has prepared hundreds of Hart-Scott-Rodino premerger notification filings and regularly assists our clients in responding to information and document requests from the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department's Antitrust Division.
Litigation and Counseling
We have extensive experience in private antitrust litigation, agency litigation practice and counseling with respect to the full-range of antitrust issues. We have advised clients in connection with some of the most notable and complex antitrust issues in recent years involving claims of monopolization, price-fixing, tying, group boycotts, exclusive dealing, and resale price maintenance and price discrimination. Our experienced litigators have represented defendants and plaintiffs in connection with cases involving alleged agreements between or among competitors and single firm conduct in federal and state courts around the country.
Our Antitrust Group regularly assists clients in developing and administering antitrust compliance programs, including compliance with existing antitrust judgments and decrees.
Criminal Practice
We have world-class experience in antitrust grand jury investigations, and advising foreign and domestic clients under criminal investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice. Our criminal antitrust practice team is lead by a former Assistant Attorney General and a leading criminal antitrust enforcement official from the Department of Justice. We have represented clients in scores of investigations involving allegations of price-fixing, market allocation, bid-rigging and other criminal conduct on a national or global scale. Our group is uniquely positioned to advise clients on current criminal enforcement and the most effective strategies in protecting the client’s interests during the investigation and in anticipation of possible private treble-damage claims.
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