Antitrust
Notable Representations, Key Contacts
Weil’s global Antitrust team provides clients with the international reach and extensive expertise required to handle complex and rapidly shifting antitrust and foreign investment rules around the world. Our team has a proven track record of achieving successful and innovative outcomes for clients across the full range of transactional and behavioral antitrust and foreign investment matters.
“An exceptional group of attorneys with deep experience representing clients before government agencies.”
Antitrust M&A:
With our deep experience in handling complex cross-border merger review processes and our position at the forefront of shaping antitrust policy, Weil has been trusted to provide effective global strategic counseling, agency representation, and litigation defense for many of the largest, highest-profile transactions in recent years.
Antitrust Litigation:
Weil has a strong reputation for successfully defending clients in their most high-stakes civil and criminal antitrust litigations, achieving the best outcomes at trial and on appeal in respect of the full range of cutting-edge antitrust issues, with particular success in class action litigations.
Cartels & Investigations:
With our deep expertise and global reach, Weil is regularly called upon by clients across the globe to guide them through all phases of criminal and civil cartel investigations. We have consistently obtained favorable results, earning the practice recognition among the top cartel defense firms in the world.
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Awards and Recognition, Guides and Resources, Speaking Engagements, Latest Thinking, Firm News & Announcements
Awards and Recognition
- Weil Ranked a Top-Ranked Tier 1 Firm for Antitrust in the U.S. Award Brief — Benchmark Litigation 2022
- Eric Hochstadt Named 2019 "Rising Star" Award Brief — New York Law Journal
- Jeff White Named 2018 Rising Star for Antitrust/Competition by Law360 Award Brief — Law360 2018
- Weil Named “Antitrust Firm of the Year” Award Brief — Legal Media Group’s Sixth Annual Life Sciences Awards, 2018
- David Lender and Eric Hochstadt Named AmLaw’s Litigators of the Week Award Brief — The Am Law Litigation Daily April 2018
Speaking Engagements
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The Robinson-Patman Act: The Potential Revival of a Controversial Law from the Dustbins of History
Speaker(s):
Yehudah L. Buchweitz
May 2, 2024 — New York, NY — Weil Complex Commercial Litigation partner Yehudah Buchweitz led a panel discussion entitled “The Robinson-Patman Act: The Potential Revival of a Controversial Law from the Dustbins of History,” at Practising Law Institute’s “Developments in Antitrust Law & Regulation 2024.” The panel touched on the history of the Robinson-Patman Act, key considerations in bringing and defending against claims under it, and the dynamics between the Robinson-Patman Act and other antitrust laws
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A Divided FTC Issues Final Rule on Non-Competes
Speaker(s):
John P. Barry,
Eric S. Hochstadt and
Celine Chan
April 29, 2024 — Weil partners John Barry and Eric Hochstadt and counsel Celine Chan moderated a cross-disciplinary Weil webinar entitled “A Divided FTC Issues Final Rule on Non-Competes,” in which they analyzed the FTC’s Final Rule and legal challenges to it, and provided practical takeaways for employers.
Latest Thinking
- Correcting the Corrective Mechanism: EU’s Top Court Kills European Commission’s Ability to Review Below-Threshold Deals Alert — By Niklas Maydell, Annagiulia Zanazzo and Bella Spring — PDF — September 2024
- You Can Bank on It: Enforcing against Unlawful Information Exchange Remains Top of Antitrust Regulators’ Agenda Alert — Antitrust — By Nafees Saeed, Bella Spring and Chris Thomas — PDF — August 2024
- Texas District Court Sets Aside the FTC’s Non-Compete Rule Alert — By Mark A. Perry, John P. Barry, Jeffrey H. Perry, Eric S. Hochstadt, Josh Wesneski and Mark Pinkert — PDF — August 27, 2024
- GCR Know How Market Review: Cartels 2024 Publication — Global Competition Review — By Adam C. Hemlock — PDF — August 2024
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Opt-out, opt-out: Exploring the rise of UK collective actions against big tech
Blog Post — WorthWeil Antitrust Blog
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Jenine Hulsmann,
Jamie Maples,
Bella Spring,
Matthew Gibbon and
Charlotte de Vitry
— July 22, 2024
Legislative and case law developments and consequent industry changes over the past decade have led to a surge in opt-out collective proceedings in the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal. Increasingly, large tech companies have found themselves the target of high-value mass claims, often brought by competition law experts. In this post, we explore the factors fuelling ...
Firm News & Announcements
- Megan Granger Named to Global Competition Review’s 40 Under 40 for 2024 Firm Announcement — September 05, 2024
- Weil Reinforces Leading Global Antitrust Group with Addition of FTC Veteran Mark Seidman Press Release — September 04, 2024