M&A/JVs - Antitrust Aspects
Our Antitrust and Competition Practice Group has extensive experience in all facets of the merger review process and has worked on numerous large transactions. We have represented participants on all sides of merger transactions, ranging from small assets purchases to billion-dollar public tender offers and risk arbitrage departments of major investment banking firms. We have analyzed the antitrust implications of most of the significant merger and acquisition transactions since 1978, representing in excess of 1,300 transactions, and use this knowledge to provide a preliminary analysis of proposed transactions and to evaluate antitrust risks involved in the transactions. Our Group also provides advice on the Hart-Scott-Rodino notification requirements in even the most complicated transactions, typically filing over 125 Hart-Scott-Rodino notifications each year.
Additionally, our Antitrust and Competition Practice Group is experienced in defending transactions before the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ). Our lawyers have experience in all aspects of representation before the FTC and DOJ from the initial waiting period through to complying with agency requests for additional information (a so called "Second Request"), up to defending a transaction in court where necessary. In addition to defensive work, our Group also has substantial experience in representing third parties that wish to oppose transactions before the FTC, DOJ or the federal courts.
RECENT MERGER, ACQUISITION & JOINT VENTURE REPRESENTATIONS
- Merger of two of the largest U. S. defense companies
- Acquisition of major lighting technology company by a science products company
- Acquisition of a major satellite telecommunications company by the largest U.S. defense company
- Merger of two of the largest private energy service providers
- Merger of two of the world's leading specialty chemicals group
- Acquisition of major distilled spirits business by the world's largest spirits company
- Acquisition of a major explosives industry company
- Acquisition of a major airport security scanners company
- Acquisition of a major speech software firm by one of its leading rivals
- Joint venture of the two largest companies in the phosphorous industry
- Successful opposition to various acquisitions in the aerospace industry
- Successful opposition to merger of back-office software companies
- Joint acquisition and division of assets of a health insurance plan by two other plans in the same market
Contacts
- Jon B. Dubrow
+1 202 756 8122
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+1 202 756 8028
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