Antitrust & Competition

Antitrust Litigation

Orrick’s Antitrust Litigation team oversees the most challenging investigations, follow-on enforcement actions and private cases. We represent corporations and financial institutions in cases alleging monopolization, price fixing, merger challenges and other alleged antitrust violations. Our litigators are proactive and adept at managing complex trials in federal and state courts in addition to proceedings in agency tribunals and international venues. We have a proven record of achieving favorable results for clients, from winning at pre-trial, to defeating class certification, challenging preliminary injunction requests, prevailing at summary judgment, securing successful verdicts and defending merger challenges. Our team has deep experience advising on cutting-edge monopoly maintenance enforcement, monopolization remedies and compliance challenges across the globe.

Merger Control

Orrick’s Antitrust & Merger Control team is at the forefront of securing regulatory clearance for high-profile strategic combinations, particularly in the rapidly evolving technology, AI, life sciences and energy and infrastructure sectors. With a deep understanding of global antitrust agencies, including the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, U.S. Department of Justice, European Commission, UK Competition and Markets Authority and other national competition authorities, we navigate evolving regulatory landscapes to secure favorable outcomes for our clients while minimizing delays. We regularly advise on deals that spur complex competitive effects and fashion strategies to secure clearance that encompass multi-jurisdictional merger control, foreign direct investment and national security advice.

Compliance and Advisory

We help clients design compliance tools and implement strategies that manage antitrust and competition risk. We often incorporate strategic insights gleaned from recent enforcement activity to address our clients’ needs efficiently. Our multi-jurisdictional compliance counseling builds on our team’s experience advising on Board representation, pricing, distribution, vertical restraints, competitor collaborations and other competition laws. Beyond responding to enforcers’ inquiries, to achieve clients’ goals, we advocate offensively on behalf of concerned industry participants. Our compliance counseling is informed by our ability to unpack and advance arguments specific to tech, life sciences, energy and infrastructure and finance as well as crossover intellectual property issues. We counsel clients with innovative offerings and legacy platforms alike, ensuring compliance with antitrust and competition laws while they are pursuing their strategic objectives.