In this era of enhanced antitrust and consumer protection scrutiny, today's businesses face a broad spectrum of complex compliance and litigation risks and challenges. Bullivant Houser Bailey PC offers specialized expertise and in-depth experience to assist businesses of all sizes and in a wide variety of industries to effectively address these risks and challenges.
Areas of antitrust/competition and trade regulation experience include:
- Antitrust class action litigation
- International cartel investigations and litigation (criminal and civil)
- USDOJ-Antitrust, FTC and state Attorneys General investigations and litigation
- Antitrust counseling and corporate compliance programs
- Trade associations
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Minimum advertised pricing ("MAP") programs, Leegin resale price maintenance issues and so-called "Colgate" unilateral pricing programs
- Joint ventures and other competitor collaborations
- Intellectual property issues with antitrust implications
- Monopoly and dominant firm conduct
- Dealership and distribution issues
Areas of consumer law experience include:
- Consumer Class Action Litigation
- Consumer Law Counseling, Marketing and Advertising
- Gift Card, Stored Value Card and Payments Industry Counseling and Litigation
- Privacy and Data Protection
Our attorneys have been involved in some of the most complex and cutting-edge antitrust/competition, trade regulation and consumer protection litigation. We have successfully represented large, medium and small corporate clients in antitrust and consumer class actions and other antitrust/competition litigation in federal and state courts on the West Coast, as well as elsewhere in the United States. We have prior antitrust and consumer protection enforcement experience with state Attorneys General offices. Our prior enforcement experience includes participation in nationwide and multistate investigations and prosecutions with other states as well as the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice. Members of our Antitrust & Trade Regulation Practice also include those who hold leadership positions in state bar association sections such as the State Bar of California Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law Section Executive Committee.