Competition and Antitrust Litigation
Allen & Overy’s highly experienced competition and antitrust team combines litigation and trial expertise with strategic advice to allow clients to pursue or defend claims successfully before regulators and courts in Europe, the U.S. and around the globe.
A&O’s global team of antitrust enforcement experts includes former U.S. prosecutors (including in the United States Federal Trade Commission), judicial law clerks from the U.S. courts, judicial assistants at the European Court of Justice and law professors, alongside highly experienced lawyers and litigators. Our team represents clients in the highest profile matters globally, including Cartel, monopolization, and abuse of dominance, and is expert in the key procedural issues including class certification, pretrial procedures, and trying cases.
We advise clients across a range of sectors, including financial services, media and technology, consumer and retail, on:
- the fallout from adverse decisions by and results from European, U.S. and national competition authorities concerning breaches of competition law, including appeals of infringement decisions
- multijurisdictional litigation strategies and coordination, including pre-litigation
- the themes and factual development necessary to win any liability claim
- the complex procedural mechanisms in U.S, class actions and private actions for damages, including class certification and damages analysis,
- trial of antitrust competition law claims
- appeals and judicial reviews, including reviews of decisions by regulatory authorities
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News: 20 February 2024
Allen & Overy berät Uniper bei Verkauf des ungarischen Gaskraftwerks Gönyű an Veolia
Allen & Overy berät das internationale Energieunternehmen Uniper SE, Düsseldorf („Uniper“) bei dem Verkauf von 100 % der Anteile an ihrer Tochtergesellschaft Uniper Hungary Energetikai Kft. („Uniper…
Publications: 15 February 2024
Was bringt das geplante Gesetz zum Schiedsverfahrensrecht für die Praxis?
Das deutsche Schiedsverfahrensrecht soll an die aktuellen Bedürfnisse angepasst und damit insgesamt attraktiver gemacht werden. Zu diesem Zweck hat das Bundesjustizministerium am 1. Februar 2024 einen…
News: 01 February 2024
Counsel-Zugang für Schiedsverfahrenspraxis in Deutschland
Allen & Overy erweitert die deutsche Arbitration-Gruppe mit dem Schiedsrechtler Dr. Tino Schneider, der zum heutigen 1. Februar 2024 als Counsel zur Kanzlei stößt. Er verfügt über weitreichende…
Publications: 07 November 2023
11. GWB-Novelle tritt in Kraft und bringt bedeutende Neuerungen
Heute ist mit der 11. Novelle des Gesetzes gegen Wettbewerbsbeschränkungen (11. GWB-Novelle) die nach Äußerungen der Bundesregierung größte Reform des deutschen Wettbewerbsrechts seit Ludwig Erhard in…
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…regularly represents clients in antitrust litigation, private enforcement cases and disputes concerning standard-essential patents.
Chambers Europe, Europe-wide, 2020
...top-10-level work in mergers, cartels and litigation, as well as some of the best showings in non-cartel conduct matters and other competition work.
Global Competition Review 2019