Antitrust

Boies, Schiller & Flexner has a highly successful and sophisticated antitrust practice counseling clients that face large challenges.  We excel in the defense and prosecution of complex, high-stakes antitrust cases, and the defense of antitrust and competition-related government investigations.  Our practice is both national and international in scope as it spans a broad range of industries.  Among our partners are the former lead trial attorney for the United States in United States v. Microsoft; a former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division and the former lead attorney for the United States in United States v. AT&T.

Our partners have been lead trial counsel, or co-lead trial counsel, in some of the most important antitrust cases in history, including:  United States v. Microsoft; United States v. AT&T; United States v. IBM; United States v. Northwest Airlines and Continental Airlines; United States v. ADM and RJR Nabisco; In re Vitamins Antitrust Litigation; In re Auction Houses Antitrust Litigation; California Computer Products v. IBM; Square D Co. v. Niagara Frontier Tariff Bureau; and In re Scrap Metal Litigation .

This experience translates into cutting-edge antitrust actions.  Boies, Schiller & Flexner has become a pioneer in plaintiffs' side international price fixing cases when we brought the first antitrust lawsuits against certain Chinese manufacturers for conspiring to fix the prices of Vitamin C and Magnesite sold in the United States. We recently won several summary judgment motions, each affirmed on appeal, for a company alleged to have violated federal antitrust laws through its retail merchandising and wholesale distribution policies.  Damages sought ranged from $85 million to more than $1 billion.  The Firm currently represents American Express in its antitrust claims against Visa, MasterCard and several of their member banks.