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Our Antitrust Regulation Difference
In recent years, there has been a sharp increase in antitrust litigation. This type of suit threatens triple-damage jury awards, multi-million dollar fines, and potential incarceration, and it must be taken seriously. Walter Haverfield’s antitrust attorneys have tackled these challenges for decades, and we draw on our wealth of experience to help you or your company respond properly to:
- Civil investigative demands
- Subpoenas
- Demand letters
- Lawsuits
- Numerous antitrust issues can arise in day-to-day business
We also recognize that unfair competition law presents a parallel set of challenges. Our full-service firm approach provides intellectual property attorneys who are focused on keeping a level playing field between competitors. Our counsel includes:
- Enforcement or defense of a non-competition agreement
- Protection of trademarks, domain names, copyrights, patents, and sophisticated trade secret claims
Antitrust Regulation Team
Experience
- Obtaining dismissal of monopolization claims against a local municipality
- Defending a criminal antitrust matter to a jury involving charges of price-fixing and market allocation by scrap metal suppliers in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act
- Representing a manufacturer of metal-wood golf clubs in antitrust claims against a major competing manufacturer, obtaining a favorable settlement from a competing manufacturer
- Resolving a price discrimination claim brought against a major manufacturer of telecommunications equipment by one of its local distributors
- Evaluating the antitrust implications of a proposed contract between two competing suppliers of health care products
- Coordinating the response of target and non-target individuals and companies to grand jury subpoenas issued by the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice
- Preventing former employee of a high-tech client from maintaining a position with a competitor in violation of the non-competition agreement
- Litigating and negotiating the resolution of various business tort claims relative to employee non-compete covenants brought against a competitor by a bankrupt health care services company
- Obtaining temporary restraining order and injunction against a former employee under a non-competition agreement
- Drafting non-competition and confidentiality agreements for clients
- Pursuing Lanham Act claims on behalf of clients whose intellectual property rights were being infringed upon by competitors passing off counterfeit goods
- Enforcing a non-competition agreement on behalf of a national ink manufacturer against a former sales representative who had accepted employment with a competitor
- Drafting non-competition and confidentiality agreements for clients with highly paid managerial employees and commissioned salespeople
- Defending a welding equipment supply company regarding a Lanham Act unfair trade practice action in federal court
- Obtaining favorable resolution for an employee whose employer sought and obtained a temporary restraining order under a non-competition agreement
