Jones Walker LLP

Jones Walker's antitrust attorneys advise clients on the antitrust implications of their proposed competitive strategies, assist clients with the development of compliance and training programs, and represent clients in litigation before federal and state courts and enforcement agencies.

Counseling

Our antitrust attorneys advise a broad range of clients on the antitrust implications of proposed business transactions and strategies, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, marketing and pricing policies, information sharing, and licensing. We find practical solutions to the complex issues often presented by antitrust law.

Jones Walker serves as outside antitrust counsel for many large national and international concerns, including:

• Cal Dive International, Inc. (Houston, TX)
• CenturyLink Inc. (Monroe, LA)
• Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, LLC (The Woodlands, TX)
• Coca-Cola Bottling Co. United, Inc. (Birmingham, AL)
• Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (Phoenix, AZ)
• PHI, Inc. (Lafayette, LA)
• OptiSource LLC (Minneapolis, MN)
• Tidewater, Inc. (New Orleans, LA.)

Compliance & Training

Our antitrust attorneys design compliance and training programs tailored to an individual client's specific needs and culture. Our guidelines and training programs simplify the complexity of antitrust laws for employees so that they understand the bright-line rules for their everyday conduct, as well as help them recognize situations that call for specific attention and guidance.

Civil & Criminal Investigations and Litigation

Our antitrust attorneys are experienced practitioners who represent clients in criminal and civil antitrust investigations and litigation. We guide many clients through federal antitrust reviews of proposed acquisitions and mergers, investigations by state and federal enforcement authorities, and litigation in federal and state courts across the country.

Diversity Mission Statement

Jones Walker LLP strives to encourage, foster and increase diversity across the firm. To this end, the Diversity Committee has adopted the goal of fostering a work environment that welcomes different perspectives, backgrounds and life experiences and ensures that an individual’s professional growth, experience or advancement is not limited because of gender, race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability or other similar factor.

Purposes of the Diversity Committee

• To increase awareness of the importance of diversity within the firm and of the means by which diversity enriches the firm;
• To encourage all lawyers and staff members to develop mutual respect and appreciation for different perspectives and backgrounds; and
• To develop and implement strategies to assist the firm in recruiting, retaining and advancing staff and lawyers from diverse backgrounds.
• Jones Walker values all employees who contribute positively to the firm’s practice, the firm’s environment, and the greater community we serve.

In 2009, Jones Walker was named to MultiCultural Law Magazine’s list of "Top 100 Law Firms for Women," part of a series of listings of the top 100 law firms for diversity. The listings are compiled based on diversity statistics derived from annual surveys that the publication sends to law firms with more than 100 attorneys.