Practice Areas & Industries: Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

A Full Range of Counseling and Litigation Services

Our antitrust practice includes a former Assistant Attorney General of the Antitrust Division at the U.S. Department of Justice, a former Special Assistant to the Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust, Chief of Staff and Counselor to the Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust, an Assistant Director for General Litigation at the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition and former staff attorneys from the Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission. The practice is based in our Washington, DC and New York offices. We have won important victories in and out of court and represented clients in many major transactions. We provide state-of-the-art counsel on a wide variety of matters in connection with trade competition law in the United States and abroad and work very closely with Fried Frank's corporate practice, providing an invaluable link between antitrust and the key capital markets driving today's strategic transactions. The antitrust group also works closely with the intellectual property and technology practice on matters relating to trademark and patent litigation issues, where parallel antitrust or unfair competition claims or counterclaims are often asserted. Additionally, the antitrust group works with the white-collar criminal defense practice on matters relating to fraud and corrupt practices.

Services Available

We have successfully represented antitrust clients in the following areas:

• Antitrust aspects of mergers and acquisitions
• Antitrust counseling and litigation in both trial and appellate courts
• The formation of joint ventures, strategic alliances and business-to-business (B2B) networks
• Antitrust grand jury investigations
• Appellate matters
• Civil investigative demands
• Counseling on distribution and marketing
• Franchise counseling and litigation
• Unfair competition and consumer protection claims
• False advertising claims
• Trade association counseling

Clients:
AEA Investors Inc., Bacardi, Bear Stearns & Co. , BellSouth Corporation , Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company, CIGNA Corporation , Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group , El Paso Corporation , Exxon Mobil Corporation , Forstmann Little & Co. , General Electric Company , General Semiconductor, Inc., GKN plc , Goldman, Sachs & Co., Hilti Corporation , Hunter Douglas Inc. , Insilco Corporation , Invensys plc , Island , Ivaco Inc. , Loews Cineplex Entertainment Corporation , McKesson HBOC, Inc. , Merck & Co., Inc. , Microsoft Corporation , National Service Industries Inc. , Northrop Grumman Corp., Paragon Medical Services, LLC , Procter & Gamble Company , Reader's Digest Association Inc. , Rio Tinto plc , The Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews , TradeWeb , TRTZ Corporation PLC , SBC Communications Inc. , Schering-Plough Corporation , The Scotts Company , Grupo Televisa SA , US Airways Inc. , WorldCom, Inc. , WPP Group plc