--- title: Antitrust date: 2023-06-12T15:36:00-04:00 author: Import Bot canonical_url: "https://www.kelleydrye.com/practices/antitrust" section: Services --- # Antitrust From merger clearances to price-fixing allegations, Kelley Drye’s Antitrust team helps our clients close important deals, comply with complex rules, and resolve investigations and disputes. - About - Team - Honors - Events For both market leaders and up-and-comers, antitrust and competition issues can create major obstacles for your company’s continued growth and success. Kelley Drye offers a full range of regulatory compliance advice, litigation strength, and transactions experience to keep your business moving forward. Nationally ranked among the top antitrust law firms *– U.S. News Best Law Firms* Our team includes former DOJ and FTC officials and leverages our Washington-based consulting arm, Georgetown Economic Services, to supplement our legal advice and litigation strategies with economic analysis, market assessments, and consulting. #### Compliance Counseling Tailored to Your Needs From quick answers in urgent consultations to full-scale compliance programs that both anticipate problems and offer strategic solutions, Kelley Drye’s antitrust attorneys guide companies, trade groups, and individuals on complex antitrust and competition law. We offer antitrust counseling and compliance advice in the following areas: ### Distribution and Price Discrimination We advise on dual-distribution plans and distributor agreements, design pricing and promotional programs that satisfy the demands of the Robinson-Patman Act, and tailor strategies to limit exposure to resale pricing regulations. ### Competitor Relations We help clients collaborate without raising unnecessary antitrust liability, including joint ventures, licensing, joint purchase agreements, research and development ventures, or cross-licensing agreements. ### Dominant Firms Our attorneys have litigated both sides of monopolization cases, defending successful companies against weaker competitors who use claims of unfair competition to undermine legitimate business practices and challenging monopolists that have engaged in anticompetitive practices. ### Joint Ventures and Alliances Kelley Drye works with trade associations, buyers groups, and businesses that collaborate with others to structure their ventures and alliances in ways that avoid triggering DOJ and FTC scrutiny. ### Consumer Protection Kelley Drye represents clients in all areas of consumer protection law, including false and deceptive advertising, unfair trade practices, and privacy issues related to the use of personal information. We have an excellent record in advertising litigation and National Advertising Division proceedings as well as substantive experience at the FTC, State AG offices, and broadcast networks. #### Antitrust Litigation Strategies to Propel Your Business Forward A ​“standout” and among the ​“Most Feared Law Firms,” for litigation (BTI Consulting’s *Litigation Outlook*), we litigate an array of antitrust and competition issues, defending clients against government merger challenges, civil and criminal cartel actions, and private antitrust litigation for both plaintiffs and defendants. We have significant experience in the following areas: ### Civil Investigative Demands We frequently represent clients served with agency Civil Investigative Demands (CIDs). Whether our client’s goal is to minimize the burden of complying with the CID or persuasively present its perspective to the agency, we have the experience and the reputation with antitrust agencies to succeed. ### Criminal Investigations We represent companies and individuals who come under investigation for criminal antitrust offenses such as price fixing. We know how government prosecutors work in this specialized area and how to help clients deal with subpoenas, grand juries, potential co-defendants, and simultaneous investigations in multiple countries. The firm has deep experience with the Department of Justice Antitrust Division’s Leniency (Amnesty) Policy, which has been adapted in other countries. ### Competition and Intellectual Property Whether helping fend off frivolous antitrust counterclaims or using the antitrust laws to prevent our client’s rival from using dubious IP rights to drive competitors out of the market, our antitrust attorneys have the experience and knowledge to defend our clients’ interests in IP-antitrust disputes. ### Dispute Resolution Our attorneys provide creative approaches to the resolution of competitive disputes in an efficient, cost-effective manner without resorting to litigation. Through commercial settlements and mediation, arbitration, and summary procedures, where the rules and dynamics are different from those applied in civil courts, we provide alternative mechanisms for resolving competitive issues in a manner that meets both strategic objectives and constrained legal budgets. #### Global Antitrust M&A Support Our transaction teams offer efficient, responsive M&A support for matters of any scale, anywhere in the world. We guide clients through all facets of the merger process through strategic counseling, efficient filings, and effective navigation through regulatory clearances. With a deep bench of attorneys who are fluent in more than a dozen languages and have strong, long-term relationships with liaison law firms around the world, we handle the antitrust aspects of mergers and acquisitions for major multinational companies in a host of jurisdictions and across a range of industries and businesses. 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