Bingham enhances Antitrust and White Collar strength with two key hires

April 11, 2013 New partners bring valuable agency experience, augment global enforcement and litigation capabilities... more >

Bingham partners featured at ABA Antitrust’s corporate counsel program

March 15, 2013 Bingham partners were the featured speakers at the ABA Antitrust Section’s Corporate Counseling meeting about recent antitrust updates... more >

Panel outlines global enforcement, executive risk

Dec. 17, 2012 Partners outlined personal risks for executives with increased global government enforcement at a recent Japanese Chamber of Commerce-sponsored luncheon. more >

GCR recognizes Antitrust and Trade Regulation team

Sept. 12, 2012 Bingham’s Antitrust and Trade Regulation Practice Group was recognized by Global Competition Review (GCR) as a “highly recommended” practice. more >

D. Goldberg named BTI Client Services All-Star

Feb. 15, 2013 Partner Dan Goldberg was one of only eight antitrust lawyers in the U.S. named to the 2013 BTI Client Services All-Stars team. more >

Antitrust, Competition and Trade Regulation

Bingham is widely recognized for our work in antitrust, competition and trade regulation law. Our group is highly ranked by Chambers Global 2011, Best Lawyers and Chambers USA, and has been described as “a superb team of tremendous attorneys who offer advice of the absolute highest quality.”

We represent the world’s leading companies in their most critically important, highest-profile competition matters. Clients call on more than 75 lawyers in the U.S., UK and Asia in national and cross-border investigations, litigation, and merger clearance because they know we will devise and execute a legal strategy that furthers their business strategy. At Bingham, we never forget that our success depends on our clients’ success.

We recently expanded our antitrust capabilities in our London office and bolstered our nationwide strength in the U.S. by undertaking a major expansion of our antitrust practice in the nation’s capital, with five antitrust partners joining the Washington office. More than ever we are poised to address and resolve your antitrust and competition law issues wherever and however they may arise.

With our Bingham Consulting and Government Affairs groups, we offer clients an integrated antitrust and competition practice that few firms can match. Our partners in Bingham Consulting are former governors, a former state attorney general and other former senior state officials dedicated to devising strategies for addressing state government enforcement. Bingham Consulting is a truly unique resource with an extraordinary track record of avoiding, or minimizing, additional risk at the state level. Our Government Affairs group advances our clients’ interests before legislators and governmental agencies and execute seamless legal and public policy strategies.

Key Areas of Focus

While Bingham lawyers are poised to address and resolve your antitrust and competition law issues wherever and however they may arise, the following are some key areas of focus for Bingham’s Antitrust and Trade Regulation Group:

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Intel — Represented Intel in suit filed by the New York Attorney General alleging monopolization of the x86 microprocessor market under federal and New York antitrust laws, arising from Intel’s above-cost discounting. After the court dismissed most of the case on summary judgment in late 2011, it settled favorably in early 2012.
Sharp — Representing Sharp in direct and indirect purchaser class actions and opt-out litigations alleging price-fixing in the sale of consumer electronics displays.
Morgan Stanley Capital Group — Represented Morgan Stanley and obtained dismissal in separate federal and state court actions alleging federal and state antitrust violations arising from a financial swap transaction relating to the price of New York City electrical capacity. The courts in both actions granted Morgan Stanley’s motions to dismiss, holding that the claims were barred by the filed rate doctrine, federal preemption and lack of standing.
Intel — Representing Intel in a consolidated civil putative antitrust class action brought on behalf of current and former employees of Apple, Pixar, Lucasfilms, Intuit, Adobe and Intel alleging collusion in the payment of employee salaries.

SanDisk — Representing nonparty SanDisk in a lawsuit challenging its licensing policies relating to standards development. In January 2012, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed the case, with prejudice, as time-barred. We are also representing SanDisk in the Oliver case, a follow-on putative class action to this case.
Genzyme — Representing Genzyme in a challenge to its international distribution rights for medical devices.
Qualcomm — Representing Qualcomm in a Japan Fair Trade Commission investigation of its licensing practices.
Royal Bank of Canada — Represented Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) in a lawsuit alleging an industry-wide bid-rigging conspiracy in the municipal derivatives market. We obtained the dismissal of 19 of the 20 cases filed against RBC.
Tempur-Pedic — Obtained victory for Tempur-Pedic, manufacturer of mattresses and sleep-related products, in national antitrust class action alleging violations of the Sherman Act. Currently representing client in New York Attorney General’s Office investigation of client's retail price policy.
Financial Institution (confidential) — Advising a major financial institution in two European Commission investigations and a related DOJ investigation into Credit Default Swaps.
Technology Company (confidential) — Representing a major technology company in a Korean Fair Trade Commission investigation.
Consumer Electronics Company (confidential) — Representing client in restructuring its worldwide distribution network, involving competition laws in dozens of countries.

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