Antitrust
Overview
Federal, state and foreign antitrust laws broadly regulate the modern marketplace. At Faegre Drinker, we help businesses pursue transactions, take products and services to market, and expand operations, while minimizing any antitrust risk. Our work begins with experienced counseling: We advise on best sales, pricing and distribution practices, counsel on competitor information exchanges, audit current business activities, and help clients develop robust antitrust compliance policies. When companies face the prospect of antitrust litigation, either as defendants or plaintiffs, our team members in offices throughout the country and internationally are prepared to handle the full array of competition law claims, including those involving price fixing, price discrimination, resale price maintenance, monopolization, joint bidding, exclusive dealing and group boycotts. Faegre Drinker attorneys have extensive experience defending antitrust class actions and criminal investigations. Our antitrust team also is available to help businesses grow and move in new directions. In M&A transactions, we counsel on pre-merger notification and clearance under Hart-Scott-Rodino Act and foreign merger control laws, and we regularly handle investigations by federal, state and foreign enforcement agencies. Many of today’s most significant corporate transactions involve patents and other forms of intellectual property, and the Faegre Drinker antitrust team works closely with the firm’s IP attorneys to minimize any antitrust risk associated with standard-setting, patent pools and IP licensing, as well as to prosecute and defend IP-related competition claims.
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Insights & Events
Latest
FTC Abandons Noncompete Rule and Signals Plan to Target Unlawful Noncompete Agreements Through Individual Enforcement Actions
Anna Behrmann Discusses M&A Antitrust Enforcement With The Indiana Lawyer
The EU Data Act: Impact on Connected Products and Device Manufacturers
FTC Drops Price Discrimination Lawsuit Against Pepsi
Anna Sallstrom Comments on Business Using Trade Secrets to Protect AI Technology in Law360
A Review of Early Antitrust Enforcement Under Trump 2.0
Faegre Drinker Attorneys Receive 2025 JD Supra Readers’ Choice Awards
Faegre Drinker Continues Expansion of West Coast Litigation Team, Welcoming Antitrust Partner Heather Burke
Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law Summer Mixer
Trends in Hospital Merger Enforcement: New Tricks?
Insights
FTC Abandons Noncompete Rule and Signals Plan to Target Unlawful Noncompete Agreements Through Individual Enforcement Actions
Anna Behrmann Discusses M&A Antitrust Enforcement With The Indiana Lawyer
The EU Data Act: Impact on Connected Products and Device Manufacturers
FTC Drops Price Discrimination Lawsuit Against Pepsi
Anna Sallstrom Comments on Business Using Trade Secrets to Protect AI Technology in Law360
A Review of Early Antitrust Enforcement Under Trump 2.0
Major Changes Proposed for Health Care Transactions in Indiana: From Attorney General Notice to Approval by State Merger Board
China Issues Final Compliance Guidelines in Regulating the Medical Industry
Updated DOJ Antitrust Guidance Offers New Insights for Companies’ Compliance Programs
New HSR Act Size-of-Transaction Increasing to $126.4 Million
Events
Past Events
Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law Summer Mixer
Trends in Hospital Merger Enforcement: New Tricks?
M&A Quick Bootcamp
Hot Topics in DOJ and SEC Enforcement and Litigation 2023
Let’s Make a Deal — Insurer-Provider Bargaining and Evolving Antitrust Analysis of Provider Mergers
News
Faegre Drinker Attorneys Receive 2025 JD Supra Readers’ Choice Awards
Faegre Drinker Continues Expansion of West Coast Litigation Team, Welcoming Antitrust Partner Heather Burke
Jim Volling Honored With Pro Bono Institute’s Esteemed ‘Chesterfield Smith Award’ for Extraordinary Dedication to Legal Advocacy Work
Faegre Drinker Attorneys Recognized in 2024 Lexology Index Reports
Faegre Drinker Litigation Practice Continues to Grow With Addition of Experienced Commercial Litigator Eli Burriss
Faegre Drinker Litigation Practice Bolstered by Addition of Partner Ali Olszeski
Faegre Drinker and ACLU Secure Voting Rights Victory in Minnesota Supreme Court
Jim Birge, Kathy Osborn and Andrea Pierson Named to 2024 ‘Indiana 250’ Influential List
Faegre Drinker Attorneys Recognized in The Best Lawyers in the United Kingdom 2025
American Bar Association Honors Jim Volling with 2024 ‘Pro Bono Publico Award’
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Experience
Our Experience
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Pentair Acquires Manitowoc Ice for $1.6 Billion
Antitrust Counsel for Health Care System
Meet The Team
Meet The Full Antitrust Team
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Alfred W. Putnam, Jr.
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