Antitrust cases combine high exposure with dense economic analysis, and they often hinge on conduct that looked perfectly ordinary inside your business. We represent companies in civil antitrust disputes and government enforcement, from defending monopolization and price-fixing claims to litigating the competition issues that surface around mergers, distribution, and licensing.
Monopolization And Conduct Claims
Section 2 and the harder edges of Section 1 turn on how your conduct affected competition, not just a rival. We defend against monopolization and attempted-monopolization allegations, tying and bundling claims, exclusive dealing, and refusal-to-deal theories, building the record on market definition, business justification, and procompetitive effects that separates aggressive competition from an antitrust violation.
Price-Fixing And Cartel Defense
Allegations of price-fixing, bid-rigging, and market allocation carry the steepest stakes in antitrust, including treble damages and parallel criminal exposure. We defend against horizontal conspiracy claims by attacking the evidence of agreement, explaining lawful parallel conduct and information exchange, and coordinating civil defense with any government investigation so positions stay consistent across fronts.
IP And Antitrust Intersection
Some of the thorniest antitrust questions live inside intellectual property: standard-essential patents and FRAND commitments, patent pools, reverse-payment settlements, and claims that licensing or refusals to license harm competition. Because our attorneys work in both IP and technology, we litigate these disputes without treating the patent law and the competition law as separate worlds, which is exactly where these cases are decided.