Pierce Atwood's antitrust group provides timely, reliable and cost-effective antitrust and competition counseling to clients in a wide variety of markets. Areas of recent counseling analysis include:
- Antitrust compliance policies, training and audit
- Responding to competition in product development, distribution, pricing, non-price vertical modalities
- Pricing, including loyalty and market share discounts and Robinson-Patman Act issues
- FERC market manipulation rules in natural gas, electricity and other energy fields
- Standard setting, including trade association and government-sponsored enterprises
- Tying and bundling, including full-line forcing and other dealer purchasing requirements
- Distribution networks, including exclusive and dual distribution issues
- Exclusive dealing, in healthcare and other sectors
- Trade association activities, including data exchanges and compliance programs
- Refusals to deal, including dealer terminations and intellectual property licensing
- Pre-merger due diligence, including gun-jumping issues
- Joint ventures among competitors, including joint bidding and customer allocation issues
- Consent decree compliance, including agency audits and sunsetting
- FTC Statements of Antitrust Enforcement Policy in Health Care
- Application of state action, Noerr-Penington, File Rate Doctrine and other implied exemptions