Antitrust and Competition REGULATORY AND GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS

WilmerHale has one of the leading antitrust and competition practices in the United States and Europe. With more than 50 years' experience and over 70 competition lawyers in the US, Europe and China, we have secured antitrust clearance for hundreds of complex mergers and joint ventures, helped clients avoid fines and prison terms in many cartel investigations, and won numerous victories for clients in private and government litigation.

Ranked as one of the leading transatlantic antitrust and competition firms, we:

  • Represent Cephalon in a prominent action brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and in separate antitrust actions by putative classes of direct and indirect purchasers of Provigil®, as well as by a would-be generic competitor, Apotex, Inc., all of whom challenge Cephalon's settlement of Hatch-Waxman patent litigation.
  • Representing Broadcom in multiple lawsuits against Qualcomm raising patent and antitrust issues. We achieved significant victories in the International Trade Commission, the Federal Circuit and the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.
  • Represented Statoil in obtaining clearance of its $30 billion merger with the petroleum activities of Norsk Hydro from the European Commission and other competition authorities around the globe.
  • Represented the amnesty recipient in the investigations of the global air cargo cartel in the United States, European Union, and multiple other jurisdictions around the world and in securing a favorable settlement of the follow-on private class actions.
  • Persuaded the DC Circuit to reverse the Federal Trade Commission decision in FTC v. Rambus, which was the Commission’s most wide watched standards ambush case.

Many of our partners and senior counsel have served in high levels of government in either the United States or Europe, and all have years of experience representing clients across the full range of antitrust issues. Drawing on this wealth of expertise, we offer clients exceptional insight into the thinking of competition agencies in the United States, Europe and around the world.

WilmerHale has one of the leading antitrust and competition practices in the United States and Europe. With more than 50 years' experience and over 70 competition lawyers in the US, Europe and China, we have secured antitrust clearance for hundreds of complex mergers and joint ventures, helped clients avoid fines and prison terms in many cartel investigations, and won numerous victories for clients in private and government litigation.

Ranked as one of the leading transatlantic antitrust and competition firms, we:

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Miller, Michelle D.

Michelle D. Miller

Co-Chair, Antitrust and Competition Practice Group

+1 617 526 6116 (t)

michelle.miller@wilmerhale.com

Mueller, Thomas

Thomas Mueller

Co-Chair, Antitrust and Competition Practice Group

+1 202 663 6766 (t)

thomas.mueller@wilmerhale.com

Publications & News

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May 3, 2013

Partners Waxman, Gorelick Among WilmerHale Attorneys to Receive Prestigious DC Rankings in Super Lawyers

The annual edition of the Washington DC Super Lawyers magazine, published by The Washington Post Magazine, listed 34 WilmerHale attorneys in this year’s rankings.

April 26, 2013

China Clears Glencore's Acquisition of Xstrata Subject to Remedies

April 11, 2013

WilmerHale Partner William Kolasky Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

Partner Bill Kolasky was honored with the Global Competition Review’s (GCR) 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award during the GCR’s third annual awards ceremony on Tuesday, April 9, in Washington DC.

April 10, 2013

Four WilmerHale Partners to Speak at 2013 ABA Section of Antitrust Law Spring Meeting

Four WilmerHale partners have been invited to speak on panels during the 61st ABA Section of Antitrust Law Spring Meeting, which will be held April 10-12 at the JW Marriott Hotel in Washington DC.

April 1, 2013

Partner Molly Boast Selected for “100 Women in Antitrust” by Global Competition Review

Global Competition Review profiled 100 successful women in the field of competition law in its fourth edition of Women in Antitrust.

April 1, 2013

Robert H. Jackson: How a “Country Lawyer” Converted Franklin Roosevelt into a Trustbuster

An article by Partner William Kolasky, published in Antitrust, an American Bar Association publication, Vol. 27, No. 2, pages 85-92.

March 29, 2013

Comcast Corp. et al. v. Behrend et al.: Continued Rigor in Class Certification

On March 27, 2013, the US Supreme Court issued its second opinion in two years underscoring that lower courts must conduct a “rigorous analysis” into the efficacy of economic models for showing that damages attributable to a class-wide injury can be measured on a class-wide basis.

February 28, 2013

European Commission on Technology Licenses and Patent Pools

As part of its ongoing review of how competition law should apply to licensing, on 20 February, the European Commission published a revised draft Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation (the draft BE) and a revised draft of its Guidelines on the application of Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to technology transfer agreements (the draft Guidelines).

February 19, 2013

Six WilmerHale Attorneys Named by Best Lawyers as “Lawyer of the Year” in 2013

February 7, 2013

Molly Boast Receives William T. Lifland Service Award for Distinguished Service

Partner Molly Boast was recently awarded the William T. Lifland Service Award from the New York State Bar Association’s (NYSBA) Antitrust Law Section. The award was presented to her during the Antitrust Law Section's annual dinner in New York on January 24, 2013.

Recognition

The excellence of WilmerHale’s Antitrust and Competition Department has received significant recognition internationally.

  • Chambers USA 2012 ranked our antitrust and competition practice in the first tier in Massachusetts, and in the third tier nationally and in Washington DC. Clients praise our team for "the top-quality legal advice" and "deep knowledge that the firm has about our business and the nature of our business." In addition, six of our lawyers are individually recognized for their work, including: James Burling, Leon Greenfield, William KolaskyMichelle Miller and Thomas Mueller.
  • Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business recognized our practice in Belgium, the United States and globally in 2013. In addition, Christian Duvernoy, Claus-Dieter Ehlermann, Frédéric Louis, John Ratliff, Sven Völcker, Thomas Mueller and William Kolasky all received individual honors for their work in the field.
  • In the 2013 Best Law Firm rankings by U.S. News Media Group and Best Lawyers, our antitrust and competition practice was ranked in the first tier nationally and in Boston and Washington DC.
  • James C. Burling, William J. Kolasky, James W. Lowe, Michelle D. Miller and Thomas Mueller were all recognized for their work in the antitrust field, and selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2013 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.
  • GCR's Global Elite 2013 again ranked WilmerHale among its list of "Top 20 GCR Global Elite" firms. In addition, GCR 100 placed the firm in its "elite" first tier rankings in the Massachusetts and US Governmental Antitrust categories.
  • Partner Molly Boast received the 2013 William T. Lifland Service Award from the NYSBA Antitrust Law Section, presented to antitrust practitioners in recognition of their contributions and accomplishments in the field of antitrust.
  • Professor Dr. Claus-Dieter Ehlermann received Global Competition Review’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011, an honor presented to only 10 of the world's top antitrust lawyers each year. In 2012, Practical Law Company (PLC) ranked WilmerHale as a leading law firm in the area of antitrust and competition in Boston, and recommended the firm nationally and in Washington DC. Internationally, the firm was recommended in Belgium and Germany. In addition, 13 WilmerHale partners were selected as "Leading Lawyers."
  • In 2012, WilmerHale was also recognized in PLC's Competition Super League, a directory highlighting "the best global competition teams from around the world."  
  • Washingtonian magazine named WilmerHale Antitrust and Competition Partner William Kolasky to the "Top Lawyers" list in their December 2009 issue. The list is made up of "Washington’s best minds,” and the top one percent of the area’s 80,000 lawyers, in 29 categories.
  • In 2010, Law360 selected WilmerHale as one of five "Competition Groups of the Year," marking the second year in a row the practice has received this recognition.
  • The Vault Guide to the Top 100 Law Firms 2009 ranked the firm's antitrust practice in the top ten in its "Best in Practice" acknowledgements.