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Practice/Industry Group Overview
Kilpatrick Stockton's antitrust attorneys are well positioned to assist our clients' global needs wherever antitrust issues may arise. We work with clients to minimize antitrust risk and to maximize business opportunity. Our experience includes:
- Acquisitions & Mergers: We provide proactive counseling to evaluate potential antitrust challenges to proposed mergers and acquisitions and to structure transactions so as to minimize antitrust risk. Kilpatrick Stockton attorneys have handled matters before the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, Federal Trade Commission, state attorneys general, and the European Commission on behalf of parties or third parties to transactions.
- Civil Litigation: We have extensive experience in representing companies of all sizes as both plaintiffs and defendants in individual actions, class actions, and multi-district civil litigation involving a variety of antitrust claims, such as price fixing, price discrimination, and monopolization.
- Antitrust and Intellectual Property: We have substantial experience litigating antitrust counterclaims and other economic-based claims, such as patent misuse and patent damages claims, in patent infringement actions.
- Criminal Representation: We have regularly represented companies, individual targets of investigations, and witnesses in a variety of criminal matters such as grand jury proceedings, amnesty and immunity negotiations, and plea agreements.
- Counseling: We counsel clients in all facets of business strategies, including effective distribution programs (such as product and advertising restrictions, dealer acquisitions and terminations, and territorial and customer restraints); pricing issues (such as Robinson-Patman concerns); collaborative activities (such as trade associations, joint ventures, consortia, and joint bidding processes); and antitrust compliance programs and audits.
- Agency Representation: We represent clients on all types of antitrust and consumer protection matters before antitrust enforcement agencies, including state agencies and federal agencies, such as the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission.
- Regulated Industries: We have diverse experience representing clients in a variety of regulated industries, including health care, telecommunications and media, financial services, and transportation.
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