Practice Areas & Industries: Greenberg Traurig, P.A.

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Greenberg Traurig’s Antitrust Litigation Group includes attorneys with trial experience both with the federal antitrust enforcement agencies and against them. We are currently litigating civil and criminal antitrust cases and investigations throughout the United States and Europe. Our international practice allows us to assemble experienced antitrust litigators to prosecute or defend and try a broad range of antitrust claims. We have experience and depth in virtually every aspect of antitrust litigation. Our lawyers are particularly adept at litigating claims in regulated industries, both in federal court and before administrative agencies.

Our work has propelled the growth of the practice. We have the third fastest growing antitrust practice in the United States, and the ninth largest overall, according to Competition 360. Individually, our attorneys have also achieved recognition. Legal Media Group listed two of our lawyers, James Serota and Allan Van Fleet, in its 2006 Guide to the World's Leading Competition and Antitrust Lawyers. In addition, attorneys in our practice have been recognized as a "Top Antitrust Lawyer" by  Washingtonian magazine, a "Leading Competition Attorney" by the Global Competition Review, and as "Super Lawyers" (Antitrust) in New York and Texas.

Services Available

Broad Federal Antitrust Experience

• Prosecutors with Department of Justice Antitrust Division and Federal Trade Commission, as well as advisors to Congress
   
• Substantial record of non-prosecutions in criminal investigations
   
• Merger litigation experience and competition advocacy
   
• Counseling on practices that could create antitrust issues and alternative approaches that could eliminate or reduce antitrust risk
   
• Broad industry experience including retail automobiles, newspapers, apparel, pharmaceuticals, health care, financial institutions, food products, transportation, energy, utilities and telecommunications

Trial Experience in Landmark Cases

• Tobacco industry, hospitality industry, technology and computer software, television, price signaling, patent-antitrust and mergers
   
• Price fixing, monopolization, tying, exclusive dealing, Robinson-Patman violations and related dealer termination claims
   
• Plaintiff and defendant experience provides trial insights not found in comparable firms
   
• Deep trial bench extends the capabilities of our antitrust litigators

Civil Litigation

• Representation of plaintiffs and defendants in class actions and other antitrust litigation involving price fixing, refusals to deal, per se and rule of reason claims and related state law claims
   
• Currently litigating price fixing and other cases involving automobile retailing, vitamins, auto paint and discount retailing
   
• Litigation experience in a wide variety of other industries, including chemicals, motion picture/entertainment, newspaper advertising, rental cars, health care, forest products, dairy, military aircraft and metals, transportation, title insurance, tobacco, electrical equipment, musical instruments and airline travel services
   
• Experience in litigating antitrust issues in patent validity and infringement cases

Distribution

• U.S. and international experience in competition and distribution laws
   
• Initiation of action for a plaintiff in the fashion apparel and footwear industry relating to attempted monopolization of one industry segment
   
• Defense of distribution arrangements of companies in automobile retailing, musical instruments, computer software, fast food, orange juice distribution and discount retail marketing

Criminal

• A team of former federal prosecutors who investigate and prosecute price fixing and other per se antitrust offenses
   
• Defense of corporations and individuals before federal antitrust grand juries
   
• Prior criminal defense in the areas of dairy, ocean shipping, forest products, lysene, road building and automobile retailing industries

Regulated Industries

• Landmark cases involving title insurance, chiropractic services, insurance and workers’ compensation insurance
   
• Intervention in the electric power and natural gas industries to block a multi-state electric and gas utility merger
   
• Administrative proceedings and interventions to block mergers and acquisitions
   
• Litigation of refusals to deal involving natural gas pipeline access
   
• A member of our team is the principal editor and author of the seminal guide to antitrust in the electric and gas utility industries