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 and insights
News: 29 February 2024
Allen & Overy, cabinet international d'avocats d’affaires de premier plan, publie l’édition 2023 de son rapport « Global Trends in Merger Control Enforcement », qui analyse les tendances en matière de…
Publications: 19 October 2023
Exploitation abusive d’une position dominante par violation du RGPD
A l’occasion d’une question préjudicielle posée par le tribunal régional supérieur de Düsseldorf, la Cour de justice de l’Union européenne a dit pour droit, le 4 juillet 2023, qu’une autorité…
Publications: 18 September 2023
Directive 1828/2020 sur les actions représentatives et réforme des actions de groupe en France
La directive (UE) 2020/1828 a créé un socle commun pour les actions de groupe au sein de l’Union Européenne, qui devrait conduire le Parlement français à adopter, dans les prochains mois, une réforme…
Publications: 28 April 2023
Distinction
…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