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Antitrust
Camara & Sibley advises clients regarding the application of United States antitrust law, represents clients in antitrust litigation, and guides clients through merger-clearance and enforcement investigations by the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission.
We defend and prosecute claims for anticompetitive conduct under the Sherman and Clayton Acts, including claims for price fixing, market division, refusal to deal, vertical restraints, exclusive dealing, tying, and monopolization. We also defend and prosecute claims for price discrimination under the Robinson–Patman Act.
We have experience handling coordinated litigation in different courts across the country, class actions and consolidated mass actions in individual courts, individual-plaintiff cases, and litigation before the administrative law judges of the Federal Trade Commission. We can evaluate existing business practices to identify antitrust risks, conduct antitrust training for executives and salesmen, design and implement antitrust compliance programs for business units, and conduct internal investigations into allegations of anticompetitive conduct, including documenting our findings and any necessary corrective action in the event of a later government investigation.
We have recently represented plaintiffs and defendants in major cases against AES, Apple, Electronic Arts, KPMG, and the NCAA and have advised major corporations in the chemicals-and-plastics, energy, office-supplies, and technology industries regarding antitrust compliance and potential antitrust claims. Our group is also one of the few with experience advising utilities and other companies operating in heavily regulated industries regarding the Noerr–Pennington doctrine and the applicability of antitrust immunity to government approvals allegedly obtained by fraud.
Our strength in intellectual property make us particularly well suited to advise clients on the intersection between antitrust and intellectual property, including the doctrines of patent and copyright misuse.