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Antitrust
Antitrust Counseling & Compliance
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Corporate CounselingCEOs, senior executives and inside counsel regularly rely upon Howrey’s legal team of dedicated antitrust attorneys for first-rate strategic advice. The size and scope of Howrey’s Antitrust practice enable our 300 competition specialists to provide antitrust counseling thoroughly and swiftly.
Compliance and Reviews Howrey’s antitrust experience, insight and practical approach help clients successfully mitigate potential antitrust exposure. In the wake of Sarbanes-Oxley and revisions to the US Sentencing Guidelines, effective US antitrust compliance programs incorporate periodic reviews of high-risk groups within organizations.
Howrey also conducts reviews:- In response to third-party complaints
- Upon announcement of a government investigation of industry business practices
- When questions arise from employees
- Following acquisition of a new business
- Dealing with a crisis and its aftermath
Government CounselingGovernments also seek Howrey’s counsel to shape their competition policy and develop solutions for working effectively within the framework of antitrust laws. In Europe and Asia, Howrey lawyers are actively engaged in the development of competition statutes for private antitrust litigation.
Howrey has been instrumental in policy-making cases in many jurisdictions including the EU, UK, Australia, Canada, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, China and South Africa.
A current Howrey partner was the lead US negotiator in establishing the US-European Union Antitrust Cooperation Agreement of 1991. From that time forward, Howrey attorneys have continued to influence global competition policy. In 2007, partners from Howrey's Antitrust practice addressed a delegation from the National People’s Congress studying competition policy issues in the US and China. We were also asked to serve as advisors to India in developing its competition authority and our leadership addressed the Office of Fair Trading in the UK on proposals for antitrust private litigation.
Howrey attorneys also continue to hold leadership positions in the Business and Industry Advisory Committee (BIAC) to the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) Competition Committee. They are also highly involved with the International Competition Network (ICN), having been invited as Non-Governmental Advisors to make presentations in Bonn, Cape Town, Moscow and Seoul; serving as faculty on ICN merger workshops; helping to advise Russia on its antitrust and competition statute; and holding leadership positions on various task forces.
One of our partners is also the current chair of the ABA's International Task Force, which promotes outreach to foreign enforcement agencies and coordinates the association's comments to these agencies concerning competition initiatives.
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