Capabilities
King & Spalding’s antitrust lawyers provide sophisticated, solution-oriented advice to clients in a wide variety of industries on all aspects of U.S. and international competition law, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other strategic alliances, government civil and criminal investigations, private antitrust litigation and counseling. Clients rely on our antitrust lawyers for constructive counseling and guidance on legitimate arrangements between competitors, entry into new markets, product distribution systems and appropriate participation by clients at trade associations and standard-setting organizations, as well as to steer them through complex civil, criminal, and merger investigations and litigation. The key to our antitrust success is consistent, comprehensive and responsive counsel to our clients.
Our antitrust lawyers include several who have served in significant positions within U.S. antitrust enforcement agencies, including the former Deputy Bureau Director of the Federal Trade Commission, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Criminal Enforcement at the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, and a number of other DOJ and FTC veterans. We regularly appear before these and other key competition authorities, including state attorneys general.
Our lawyers also have substantial experience coordinating efforts to gain approval of transactions from the EU and other non-U.S. antitrust authorities, including guiding clients through Phase II merger investigations, responding to Article 11 letters and advising clients on issues of jurisdiction and disclosure of information from abroad.
Our lawyers are also active in the Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association and the Antitrust Practice Group of the American Health Lawyers Association, where our lawyers hold or have held numerous leadership positions, including Co-Chair of the Mergers and Acquisitions Committee, Chair of the Criminal Practice and Procedure Committee, and Vice-Chair of the Cartel and Criminal Practice Committee.
September 6, 2024
Salomé Cisnal de Ugarte Appointed as Non-Governmental Advisor (NGA) to the European Commission at the International Competition Network (ICN)
August 14, 2024
European Union: Commission zeroes in on innovation in merger control and pay-for-delay cases
September 17, 2024
Salomé Cisnal de Ugarte comments on Teresa Ribera, who will be the next EU competition commissioner
September 11, 2024
Salomé Cisnal de Ugarte examines Illumina’s recent court victory over a European Commission to block its $8B takeover of Grail
August 16, 2024
Bob Cooper, Rick Zall, Hershel Wancjer, Kimberly Rai and Brittany Tandy advise Lehigh Valley Health Network on its merger with Jefferson Health
December 19, 2023
Lehigh Valley Health Network, Jefferson plan to combine, creating a model integrated health care system
October 27, 2023
King & Spalding Advises Rotomaster on its Sale to Cloyes