Antitrust and Competition
Stay on the right side of the competition laws. Whether
you're a multinational corporation or a growing
business looking to expand overseas, keeping up withcompetition laws can be complex and time-consuming.
And as the rules keep changing, companies face newchallenges and risks because competition laws areconstantly evolving. There's heightened scrutiny on
everyone, and the consequences of not following therules get more extreme all the time.
Get it wrong, and you could face financial penalties,
criminal liability, litigation, difficulty-closing deals, anddamage to your reputation. We can help you anticipate
and deal with these risks before they become problems.
Be readyWith a team of 135 lawyers in 17 countries, we canhelp you tackle multinational mergers and joint
ventures; cartel, abuse of dominance, and restrictive
practice cases; and other investigations. We’ll represent
you in litigation, advise you on international legislation,and make sure you know how new policies could affectyour business. And we’re extremely familiar with
European Union State aid, public procurement, and UK
Subsidy Control. Our antitrust, competition, andeconomic regulation practice offers practical support
and advice, from compliance audits and online courses
in compliance and dawn raid preparation, to mockdawn raids.
We know, because we’ve been there

Key contacts
Logan M. Breed,
Washington, D.C.

Dr. Christoph Wünschmann,
LL.M. (University CollegeLondon),MunichChristopher Thomas,
Brussels

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Our Global Team
Meet our lawyers from across theglobe who work with clients on
antitrust and competition matters.

Areas of focus
Abuse of Dominance and RestrictivePractices
Agency InvestigationsAntitrust and Competition Litigation
Cartel Investigations
Competition Compliance
Dawn Raids
Leniency Applications

We don’t just know the government agencies andauthorities you’ll have to deal with — we’ve been partof them. Our lawyers have worked at the European
Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal
Trade Commission, and the UK competition authority.
And we’ve been called a leader in the field by Global
Competition Review, PLC Which Lawyer?, Chambers
and Partners, and The Legal 500.

Representative experience
Serving as U.S. and EU antitrust counsel to SABMiller inits US$106bn deal with AB InBev.
Served as global antitrust counsel to ALSTOM in thesale of its power businesses to GE for €12.4bn and its€700m acquisition of GE’s transportation signalingbusiness.
Representing MHI in a cartel investigation involving theJapanese, U.S., European, Mexican, and Koreanauthorities and related private damages claims.
Advised IBM on the successful global antitrust review inthe US$1.5bn acquisition of its microelectronics
business by GlobalFoundries.
Acting for DFDS in successfully opposing Eurotunnel'sacquisition of SeaFrance ferry business, one of the mosthigh-profile and controversial merger cases in the UKand France.
Advised MHI on its entry into a US$2bn global JV
between Mitsubishi-Hitachi Metals Machinery, Inc., andSiemens, in the field of metals machinery technology.
Representing Fiat and Chrysler in proceedings by the
Spanish Competition Commission involving an alleged
information-sharing cartel among automobile
manufacturers/distributors.
Represented Air Canada on its successful appeal of theEU Commission's air cargo cartel decision and indamages litigation in the U.S., UK, Germany, and TheMerger Control
State Aid and Subsidy Control
Hospitals and Health Care Providers
State Attorneys General
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)Netherlands.
Representing a defendant company in the German beercartel investigation in which the Federal Cartel Office
fined the targets €340m.
Representing container shipping giant Maersk Line in
the European Commission's investigation into pricesignalling in the container shipping sector.
Represented Orbital in the Second Request
investigation by the DOJ Antitrust Division in its
US$4.5bn merger with ATK.
Defending more than a dozen BCBS health plans in amultidistrict antitrust litigation brought by separate
putative classes of both health-insurance purchasers
and healthcare providers.
Representing Daimler Trucks North America in its
successful defense of two class actions alleging aconspiracy between the major manufacturers of heavy
duty trucks and Eaton.
Representing Credit Suisse in multidistrict antitrust
litigation.
Successfully advised IBM on the US$2.3bn sale of its
x86 server business to Lenovo.
Serving as global antitrust counsel to ARRIS in its
US$2.1bn acquisition of Pace
Advised ZTE in a landmark case decided by the ECJ
resolving critical issues involving the relationshipbetween competition law and standard essential
patents (SEPs).
Advised a major automotive manufacturer inrecovering US$100m from a cartel among
polyurethane foam manufacturers.

Awards and rankings
Recognized as a Top Antitrust & Competition Practicein GCR 100 Global Elite, Global Competition Review,
2024
Tier 1 for Cartels, The Legal 500 USA, 2023

32 lawyers recognized in Who’s Who Legal:
Competition 2023, Who’s Who Legal, 2023
Tier 1 for Competition & Antitrust in Mexico, TheLegal 500 Latin America, 2023
Practice Group of the Year, Law360, 2023
Recognized as a Top Antitrust & Competition Practicein GCR 100 Global Elite, Global Competition Review,
2023
Practice Group of the Year, Law360, 2022
Recognized as a Top Antitrust & Competition Practicein GCR 100 Global elite, Global Competition Review,
2022
Recognized as a Top 10 Antitrust & Competition
Practice in GCR 100 Global Elite, Global Competition
Review, 2021
Ranked a top ten firm in the GCR 100 Global Elite
Antitrust and Competition Practices, GlobalCompetition Review, 2020
Ranked a top four firm in GCR 100 Global Elite
Antitrust and Competition Practices, GlobalCompetition Review, 2019
Named Among the Top Global Elite Antitrust andCompetition Practices, Global Competition Review,
2018
Winner of Litigation of the Year – Cartel Defence,
GCR Awards, 2018
Antitrust & Competition practice highly recognizedby Chambers Global, USA, Europe, and Asia, and The
Legal 500 US and EMEA, 2018
Tier 1 for Competition Litigation, The Legal 500 UK,
2018
Band 1 for Competition/Antitrust in Mexico,
Chambers Latin America, 2018
Tier 1 for Competition/Antitrust in Mexico, The Legal
500 Latin America, 2018
26 Lawyers Ranked by The International Who's Whoof Competition Lawyers, 2018
Contentious Antitrust Award (Italy), Legalcommunity

Corporate M&A Awards, 2017
Winner, Business: Cross Borders, "Extradition &Antitrust: Cautionary Tales for Global Cartel
Compliance", Antitrust Writing Awards, 2017
Winner of Matter of the Year and Lawyer of the Year– Under 40, GCR Awards, 2017
Tier 1 for Competition Litigation, The Legal 500 UK,
2016
German Antitrust Practice of the Year, JUVE Awards,
2016
Winner of Matter of the Year, Merger Control Matterof the Year – Europe, Litigation of the Year: Noncartel defence, GCR Awards, 2016
Sabrina Borocci, Rachel Brandenburger, Suyong Kim,
Lesley Morphet, & Jan McDavid, GCR Women inAntitrust, 2016
Leigh Oliver and Robby Robertson Named Antitrust
Trailblazers, National Law Journal, 2016
Logan Breed and Katie Hellings named Antitrust
Trailblazers, GCR's 40 under 40, 2015
Jan McDavid, Top 100 Outstanding Women, NationalLaw Journal, 2015

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