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.
Global Recognition
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Key Contacts
![Jenine Hulsmann Jenine Hulsmann](/-/media/people/h/hulsmann-jenine.jpg?h=366&w=366&hash=0AEC46F3D85278B01CC1C150DF42E1CB)
![Brianne L. Kucerik Brianne L. Kucerik](/-/media/people/k/kucerik_brianne.jpg?h=366&w=366&hash=4C39FF51BCA30452D82DF3359AB9DE47)
![Mike Moiseyev Mike Moiseyev](/-/media/people/m/moiseyev_michael.jpg?h=366&w=366&hash=36973E10A964A3587401A54D6240F0FC)
![Jeff Perry Jeff Perry](/-/media/people/p/perry_jeff.jpg?h=366&w=366&hash=45BCA4AAB39F775136359DEAE65EAA6F)
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Awards and Recognition, 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
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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 ...
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Tech M&A in a shifting regulatory landscape: “Ecosystem entrenchment” and the curious case of the online travel agencies
Blog Post — WorthWeil Antitrust Blog
— By
Jenine Hulsmann,
Niklas Maydell,
Bella Spring and
Martin Wagner
— July 10, 2024
The European Commission has published the text of its provisional decision last September to block Booking’s proposed €1.63bn acquisition of eTraveli. In this post, we give our take on some of the EC’s key reasoning and consider the practical implications for future M&A in the tech sector and beyond. ...
- High Court Holds That New Challenges Can Be Brought To Old Agency Rules Publication — By Mark A. Perry, Zack Tripp, Josh Wesneski and Mark Pinkert — PDF — July 01, 2024
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Navigating Large-Scale Document Productions in Global Merger Reviews
Blog Post — WorthWeil Antitrust Blog
— By
Neil Rigby,
Nafees Saeed,
Bella Spring and
Venetia Hudd
— June 28, 2024
In this post, we have teamed up with colleagues at FTI Consulting to highlight our top five issues to consider when navigating the complexities of document production in parallel merger processes. Planning this work stream ahead of engagement with the regulators may help to avoid procedural pitfalls and minimize unnecessary delays to a transaction timetable. ...
- Supreme Court Abolishes Judicial Deference to Agency Interpretations of Law Publication — By Mark A. Perry and Josh Wesneski — PDF — June 28, 2024
Firm News & Announcements
- Weil Advises Astorg in $282M Take-Private Acquisition of Hamilton Thorne Deal Brief — July 24, 2024
- Weil Guides Providence Equity Partners and Its Portfolio Company TAIT Deal Brief — July 09, 2024