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Antitrust and Competition Litigation

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Our lawyers have extensive experience litigating civil and criminal antitrust cases, from representing individual and class action plaintiffs to defending against allegations of price fixing, monopoly or other antitrust violations.

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  • We litigate civil and criminal antitrust and competition matters — including class actions, multidistrict litigations and individual cases. We have extensive experience litigating at both the trial and appellate levels, including the Supreme Court of the United States. We regularly represent clients in government investigations and enforcement actions and criminal prosecutions throughout the United States and before competition authorities in Europe.

    Our Antitrust and Competition Litigation team has successfully represented industry-leading companies, global brands, nascent competitors, individual defendants, and class and opt-out plaintiffs in high-stakes and precedent-setting civil and criminal antitrust matters. Many of our lawyers honed their courtroom skills in government positions. Our team includes former members of the U.S. Department of Justice, including the Office of the Solicitor General, who have argued and won both civil and criminal antitrust cases before the Supreme Court of the United States. 

    Our team has extensive experience in asserting and defending antitrust claims relating to: 

    • Bid rigging
    • Price fixing
    • Price discrimination
    • Monopolization and attempted monopolization
    • Unfair trade practices
    • Terminated distributors
    • Joint ventures, strategic alliances and competitor collaborations
    • Market manipulation
    • Geographic and product market allocation
    • Product disparagement
    • Cartel investigations and other criminal matters
    • EU state-aid issues

    Equally adept at resolving matters through alternative means, we regularly explore and utilize arbitration, mediation and negotiated settlements to help clients avoid the risks, costs, intrusion and delays of going to court.

    Defining Matters

    • DC Litigation Team Secures Dismissal of Price Fixing Case Against Ric Blake

      On March 31, 2022, our Washington, DC, litigators secured the dismissal of the government’s case against client Ric Blake, stemming from a U.S. Department of Justice investigation into price fixing in the poultry industry, which resulted in two mistrials. Following the mistrials, the government dropped its case against Mr. Blake and four other defendants.

    • DC Team Defends Summary Judgment Win Rejecting Monopolization Claim by Pharmaceutical Company

      On Jan. 19, 2022, lawyers in Kramer Levin’s Washington, DC, office defended in oral argument before the Tenth Circuit the summary judgment they had won for a pharmaceutical company in the district court against a claim brought by a large rival. Reflecting the importance of the case, our client’s position was supported by amicus briefs from the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, leading scholars of law and economics, and the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association.

    • Kramer Levin Files Suit for The Procter & Gamble Company against Railroads Alleging Violations of Federal Antitrust Laws

      On May 1, 2020, Kramer Levin filed a federal antitrust lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on behalf of its clients The Procter & Gamble Company and certain affiliates against BNSF Railway Company, Union Pacific Railroad Company, CSX Transportation, Inc. and Norfolk Southern Railway Company.
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    Practice Contacts

      • Roy T. Englert, Jr.

        • Partner
        • Washington, DC
        • [email protected]
        • T 202.775.4503
        • F 202.775.4510
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      • Lee Turner Friedman

        • Partner
        • Washington, DC
        • [email protected]
        • T 202.775.4526
        • F 202.775.4510
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      • Daniel B. Goldman

        • Partner
        • New York
        • [email protected]
        • T 212.715.9162
        • F 212.715.8162
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      • Steven S. Sparling

        • Partner
        • New York
        • [email protected]
        • T 212.715.7736
        • F 212.715.8199
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    • Arthur H. Aufses III
    • Boaz I. Cohen
    • Pauline Dessèvre
    • Roy T. Englert, Jr.
    • Lee Turner Friedman
    • Daniel B. Goldman
    • Ralph C. Mayrell
    • Martin M. McSherry
    • Courtney L. Millian
    • Alice Mollot
    • Claudia Pak
    • Marco Plankensteiner
    • Barry J. Pollack
    • Nathan Schwartzberg
    • Shaked Sivan
    • Steven S. Sparling
    • Jeffrey C. Thalhofer
    • Mathilde Vergnaud
  • Perspectives

    • Category
      Client Alerts
      Date
      March 14, 2022
      Title
      The Ocean Shipping Antitrust Enforcement Act and Antitrust Scrutiny of Ocean Common Carriers
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      Defining Matters
      Date
      Jan. 19, 2022
      Title
      DC Team Defends Summary Judgment Win Rejecting Monopolization Claim by Pharmaceutical Company
      Abstract

      On Jan. 19, 2022, lawyers in Kramer Levin’s Washington, DC, office defended in oral argument before the Tenth Circuit the summary judgment they had won for a pharmaceutical company in the district court against a claim brought by a large rival. Reflecting the importance of the case, our client’s position was supported by amicus briefs from the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, leading scholars of law and economics, and the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association.

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      Announcements
      Date
      Nov. 04, 2021
      Title
      Kramer Levin Named in Top Tier by 2022 U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers’ Best Law Firms Rankings
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      Client Alerts
      Date
      March 18, 2021
      Title
      The Potential Impact of the Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act of 2021 on Antitrust Enforcement and Private Antitrust Litigation
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    • Category
      Client Alerts
      Date
      Dec. 01, 2020
      Title
      French Competition Authority Overturns Its Decision-Making Practice: Coordination Between Subsidiaries in Calls for Tenders Is No Longer Anti-Competitive
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    • Category
      Client Alerts
      Date
      Nov. 10, 2020
      Title
      Cartels — Presumption of Decisive Influence by the Parent Company on Its Subsidiaries and Solidarity for the Payment of the Penalty: CJEU Judgment of Oct. 28, 2020, Pirelli v. Commission
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    • Category
      Client Alerts
      Date
      Oct. 26, 2020
      Title
      European Commission Publishes Outcome of Evaluation of EU Competition Rules on Vertical Agreements
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    • Category
      Client Alerts
      Date
      Oct. 23, 2020
      Title
      United States v. Google: Market Impact and Private Antitrust Liability
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    • Category
      Funds Talk
      Date
      Aug. 03, 2020
      Title
      Antitrust Litigation Opportunity for Funds
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    • Category
      Client Alerts
      Date
      July 30, 2020
      Title
      Merger Control: French Competition Authority Publishes New Guidelines
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    • Category
      Client Alerts
      Date
      May 19, 2020
      Title
      COVID-19: risque de sanctions en cas de suspension des paiements et de non-respect des délais de paiement inter-entreprises
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    • Category
      Defining Matters
      Date
      May 04, 2020
      Title
      Kramer Levin Files Suit for The Procter & Gamble Company against Railroads Alleging Violations of Federal Antitrust Laws
      Read More
    • Category
      Client Alerts
      Date
      April 27, 2020
      Title
      EU-Antitrust Law Framework Relating to the COVID-19 Crisis
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    • Category
      Client Alerts
      Date
      March 13, 2020
      Title
      French Competition Authority: Competition Policy and Digital Issues
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    • Category
      Client Alerts
      Date
      Jan. 15, 2020
      Title
      Trade Negotiations for 2020
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    • Category
      Client Alerts
      Date
      Jan. 10, 2020
      Title
      Aumento dei prezzi e forza maggiore: quanto è importante scrivere correttamente le clausole dei vostri contratti
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    • Category
      Funds Talk
      Date
      Dec. 02, 2019
      Title
      Pre-Merger Information Exchange Between Competitors
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    • Category
      Client Alerts
      Date
      Nov. 12, 2019
      Title
      Francia - Controllo delle concentrazioni : Procedura di notifica on-line per certe operazioni
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    • Category
      Client Alerts
      Date
      Nov. 07, 2019
      Title
      The French Competition Authority Can Now Be Notified Online of Concentrations
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    • Category
      Articles
      Date
      Oct. 10, 2019
      Title
      ‘US Airways v. Sabre Holdings’: A Tale of a Two-Sided Market
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    • Category
      Client Alerts
      Date
      July 30, 2019
      Title
      European Commission Adopts Passing-On Guidelines for National Judges Evaluating Cartel-Related Damages
      Read More
    • Category
      Client Alerts
      Date
      April 29, 2019
      Title
      Relations commerciales entre professionnels : ce qui change dès le 26 avril 2019
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    • Category
      Articles
      Date
      April 08, 2019
      Title
      France Chapter: Getting the Deal Through – Vertical Agreements 2019
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    • Category
      Defining Matters
      Date
      Dec. 20, 2018
      Title
      Kramer Levin Advises La Française in Acquisition of Veritas Group
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    • Category
      Client Alerts
      Date
      June 08, 2018
      Title
      Merger Control Alert
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    • Category
      Speaking Engagement
      Date
      March 12, 2018
      Title
      International Consumer Protection Developments (EU, Italy and France)
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    • Category
      Announcements
      Date
      Nov. 15, 2017
      Title
      Kramer Levin Receives Antitrust Enforcement Award from the American Antitrust Institute
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    • Category
      Announcements
      Date
      Nov. 27, 2014
      Title
      Kramer Levin Successfully Defends Self-Inking Stamp Manufacturer Trodat France Before the French Competition Authority
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  • Recognition

    Year
    2022
    Name
    Benchmark Litigation: Law Firm of the Year for New York

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