The Firm has a long antitrust practice history involving competition issues affecting United States and international businesses. We have extensive trial and appellate experience in courts throughout the United States in federal and state antitrust and competition-related matters. Lewis, Rice & Fingersh's antitrust practice involves counseling clients on antitrust and other related concerns and our attorneys represent clients in both private treble damage and government enforcement actions.
Antitrust litigation handled by the Firm includes cases involving charges of monopolization, discriminatory pricing, price fixing, unfair trade practices and illegal tying actions. Our attorneys have been involved in multi-district as well as class action antitrust cases. The antitrust group’s attorneys also represent clients involving investigations before the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, as well as actions by State Attorneys General.
We counsel clients in the areas of antitrust compliance, distribution and franchise practices, mergers and acquisitions, tender offers, pricing matters, and Hart-Scott-Rodino pre-merger and acquisition filings. In the health care area, the Firm counsels hospitals, doctors, and managed care organizations concerning antitrust aspects of the health care industry.
Our antitrust practice has involved many major antitrust lawsuits and issues throughout the country including:
- Monopolization, illegal tying of products, predatory pricing and other anti-competitive activities in the bicycle and bicycle component industry in the United States and world markets;
- Monopolization and illegal restraints of trade in the market for professional hockey sports entertainment in the United States and Canada;
- Price fixing, predatory pricing and other restraints of trade in the steel pipe industry in the United States;
- Monopolization and price fixing in multi-district litigation;
- Robinson-Patman Act claims, predatory pricing, illegal restraints of trade and monopolization involving printed newspapers and advertising; and
- In the health care area, the antitrust aspects of peer review groups, shared services, managed care organizations, and horizontal and vertical mergers and acquisitions.