The Antitrust Laws play a central role in commerce. Businesses – whether local or global – must comply with the “rules of the road” prescribed not only by the Sherman and Clayton Acts, but also by a myriad of state and foreign competition laws. When companies come into commercial conflict, the antitrust laws provide grounds for recourse or a competitive weapon that must be combated. Businesses developing and implementing sophisticated strategies must consider the antitrust implications of conduct, including when designing products, dealing with business partners, enforcing patent rights, and in mergers and acquisitions.

How We Serve Our Clients:

The Ropes & Gray Antitrust Practice Group has the depth, practical experience, substantive knowledge, business savvy, and breadth of industry experience to handle the full-range of antitrust matters that face our clients. We litigate complex antitrust cases, including exclusionary conduct, patent-antitrust, and price fixing class actions. We defend companies and individuals accused of criminal antitrust conspiracies. We develop creative solutions to complex business problems in counseling our clients. And we achieve success for our clients in clearing mergers and acquisitions before the antitrust enforcement agencies.

Our antitrust team has extensive experience in numerous industries. We have handled antitrust matters in almost every field where they arise, including biotechnology, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and other life sciences; computer hardware, software, electronics, and semiconductors; health care (including hospitals, physician groups, GPOs, and insurance); energy, finance, transportation, automotive, manufacturing, and defense; consumer products, distribution services, telecommunications, entertainment, and the Internet. Our clients are equally varied, and range from individuals in government investigations, to public companies and private equity sponsors.

The breadth of our antitrust practice and the range of experience it provides are key elements of our success. Our diverse practice areas, which also encompass related day-to-day antitrust counseling, include the following (click on link for more detailed description and associated representative matters):

Antitrust Litigation

Criminal & Civil Antitrust Investigations 

Health Care Antitrust

Intellectual Property/Antitrust

Life Sciences Antitrust

Mergers & Acquisitions

Our Antitrust Team

Our antitrust team’s experience makes it possible to serve the diverse and constantly evolving client needs. Our seasoned antitrust partners and bench of highly capable associates include skilled trial lawyers, veterans of the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC), as well as other former prosecutors. Among our ranks, a key member of the DOJ’s Microsoft trial team, a former General Counsel of the FTC, a former Attorney Advisor to a renowned FTC Chairman, and alumni of both the Antitrust Division's Appellate Section and the Office of the Solicitor General. Our antitrust lawyers have tried numerous antitrust actions to verdict, successfully litigated antitrust issues in arbitrations, argued numerous antitrust appeals, and cleared some of the most notable mergers and acquisitions of the past decade.

Ropes & Gray’s Antitrust Practice Group succeeds because of the seamless integration with our leading litigation and transactional practices, including our Health Care, Intellectual Property, Life Sciences, Private Equity and Public Company groups. Our lawyers are based not only in Washington, D.C., but also in Boston, Chicago, New York, and San Francisco, and they represent parties in courts and agencies nationwide. As the scope of antitrust matters are increasingly international, we regularly collaborate with colleagues in our Tokyo, London, and Hong Kong offices on litigation, counseling, and merger matters. Our growing international network of correspondent counsel enables us to coordinate both global antitrust merger clearance filings and multi-jurisdictional cartel investigations.

Recognized Excellence and Leadership in the Field

Ropes & Gray is routinely recognized as a having a leading antitrust practice by Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyer for Business. In addition, multiple Ropes & Gray antitrust attorneys are ranked in Chambers USA annually and featured among numerous other rankings and surveys such as Best Lawyers in America, The International Who's Who of Competition Lawyers and Economics, Lawdragon 3000, Which Lawyer PLC, Super Lawyers, and Leading Lawyers in America. Ropes & Gray antitrust lawyers have held senior positions in the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Section, the Boston Bar Association, and other organizations. They have testified at government antitrust hearings (including the government’s hearings on revising the Horizontal Merger Guidelines and the Section 2 hearings), taught at leading law schools, presented at major antitrust conferences, and written leading articles in the field.

Contact

For further information, please contact Antitrust Practice Group Chair:

Mark S. Popofsky

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