Competition and Antitrust Litigation

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