Antitrust

Our clients in recent antitrust matters include:

• A Finnish paper company and its U.S. subsidiaries in connection with a Department of Justice investigation and multidistrict, class action litigation involving a claimed conspiracy to fix prices of publication paper.
• A medical bill review software provider accused of conspiring with its client casualty insurers to limit medical services and reduce reimbursements.
• A software company accused of engaging in an illegal tying arrangement.
• A manufacturer of medical laboratory instruments faced with a temporary injunction against its efforts to pursue a joint venture.
• A manufacturer of sophisticated scientific instruments, which we helped gain an early termination of the premerger waiting period required under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act.
• A major retail chain facing claims of monopolization in connection with real estate development efforts.
• An industrial company accused of criminal price fixing and faced with related class action litigation.
• A producer of X-ray films accused of price fixing in federal and state class action litigation.
• A U.S. distributor of Japanese photocopying equipment accused by a competitor of exclusive dealing, tying, and monopolization.
• A major computer hardware and software manufacturer accused of engaging in tying, attempted monopolization and monopoly leveraging.
• Realtor Multiple Listing Service (MLS) accused of an illegal tying arrangement by a neighboring board of realtors and of monopolization by other neighboring boards of realtors.
• A chemical company that obtained millions of dollars in settlements from foreign chemical manufacturers which had illegally fixed prices on one of our client's key components.
• The nation's largest outlet mall developer in litigation challenging our client's use of radius restrictions in its leases and its providing financial and technical support to a local citizens' group opposing construction of a competing outlet mall.
• Several energy market participants facing antitrust suits alleging market manipulation and contract actions arising from the failure to deliver and/or pay for energy, including representing parties in the Enron bankruptcy.
• Defense of an antitrust class action alleging a conspiracy among a software solutions company and its insurance company licensees to restrict covered medical services and reduce the reimbursements for those services.