Dentons’ Antitrust team brings wide-ranging counseling, agency, and trial experience to the services it provides. Whether on investigations by competition authorities, merger control, complex litigation, competition compliance programs, or commercial arrangements, we deliver tailored, effective, industry-focused, and timely advice and assistance. We are committed to helping our clients across a broad range of industries achieve their goals in an efficient and cost-effective manner while providing high quality service.  Antitrust reviews are fact-intensive so truly listening and learning about your business and strategy is our top priority – we are your partners both in the trenches and the board room. We standby to help you:

• Get Your Deal Done: We provide clients with transparent insight and guidance to get from conception to closing as seamlessly as possible, with antitrust risk assessments, negotiation of antitrust risk provisions, Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) premerger notification filings, information sharing guardrails, gun-jumping compliance, navigating “Second Request” merger investigations, and structuring and negotiating divestitures and other remedies.
• Navigate Investigations: Whether you are a third party receiving a civil investigative demand (CID) from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Department of Justice (DOJ) or a State Attorney General or a potential subject or target of a criminal investigation, our experienced team can reduce your burden, protect the confidentiality of your data, and help you respond with a streamlined approach. We have successfully advised clients on immunity and leniency applications, managed complex document reviews, prepared witnesses for interviews, quashed burdensome demands, and negotiated settlements.
• Defend Your Business: Our team of antitrust litigators help clients defend both civil and criminal litigations while also serving clients to bring antitrust claims where necessary to protect their businesses from anticompetitive conduct. We have litigated claims involving price-fixing, market allocation, tying, group boycotts, predatory pricing, and anticompetitive mergers.
• Mitigate Risk: We work with clients to develop, maintain, and audit compliance programs to mitigate risk. We create tailored trainings to provide industry-specific, practical guidance that will engage your business teams and keep them out of trouble.
• Find Solutions: We help clients achieve their business goals while limiting antitrust risk with practical and succinct advice. We counsel clients on a broad array of antitrust questions, including but not limited to, competitor collaborations, standard-setting, information exchanges, benchmarking, trade associations, group purchasing, IP licensing arrangements, exclusivity provisions, distribution agreements, territorial and customer restrictions, dual distribution, channel management, pricing and minimum advertised pricing policies, Robinson-Patman compliance, and interlocking directorates.

An Integrated Federal, State and Global Solution

The Dentons’ network enables us to serve clients wherever their issues arise. Our leading State Attorneys General practice and our recognized “Global Elite” global competition team ensure that clients receive integrated best-in-class expertise regardless of which antitrust regulators or jurisdictions are involved.  An integrated solution is becoming increasingly valuable with the rise of increased antitrust enforcement by State Attorneys General and regulators in ex-US jurisdictions.

Recognition for excellence

Our attorneys have been recognized as Top Antitrust Lawyers (Daily Journal), Lawyers on the Fast Track (The Recorder), Rising Stars in Antitrust (SuperLawyers), AI Visionaries (Relativity), and 40 Under 40 (Bloomberg Law).

Recognition

Partner Ausra Deluard named a Top Antitrust Lawyer by Daily Journal

November 29, 2023

The Daily Journal recognized Dentons partner Ausra Deluard as one of its 2023 Top Antitrust Lawyers.

Angelina Whitfield named to Bloomberg Law’s “They’ve Got Next: The 40 Under 40”

February 28, 2023

Bloomberg Law recognized senior managing associate Angelina Whitfield in its “They’ve Got Next: The 40 Under 40” list for 2023. Whitfield, a member of Dentons’ Litigation practice, was selected in large part because of her multitude of impressive achievements on behalf of clients.

Dentons ranked in GCR Global Elite’s Top 10 Firms

December 13, 2021

GCR 100 has recognized Dentons in its Top 10 Global Elite firms. The GCR 100 Global Elite is a definitive list of the top 25 firms practicing competition law internationally. GCR has also placed our Firm in the Top 2 firms for Cartels.

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Insights

Foreign investment review enters trade war: Minister equates economic security with national security

March 7, 2025

Canada: Economic security considerations could apply to investments from any country, including US investors who until now have received a “light touch” in national security reviews. It is clear that the Minister’s statements and update to the Guidelines are closely linked to the US government’s imposition of draconian tariffs on all Canadian goods on March 4 and the adverse impact this could have on Canadian businesses.

2024 Hart-Scott-Rodino Act Notification Thresholds and Filing Fees Effective February 10, 2025

January 22, 2025

United States: The determination of whether a transaction meets jurisdictional thresholds for premerger notification is dependent on several circumstances in each case, including the measure of size of persons and the size of transactions.

Episode 2: Foreign Investment Review Talks – United States

October 3, 2024

United States: In this episode, Emmanuelle van den Broucke and Jason M. Silverman discuss some very important developments in the US enforcement practice of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), unwinding an already closed real estate transaction due to certain national security concerns. You will learn in particular about the key aspects to be considered by a foreign investor in the US when preparing a deal in order to avoid burdensome post-closing unwinding of the transaction.

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News and Events

Recent Press Releases

Dentons releases Global AI Trends Report

January 20, 2025

Dentons, the world’s largest global law firm, has published a Global AI Trends report, highlighting key risk considerations with viewpoints from multiple jurisdictions.

Dentons advises Eni Sustainable Mobility on the strategic partnership with PBF Energy for St. Bernard biorefinery in the US

February 28, 2023

Dentons assisted Eni Sustainable Mobility in entering into the agreements for a strategic partnership with PBF Energy in a 50-50 joint venture named St. Bernard Renewables (SBR) in relation to the biorefinery, currently under construction, co-located with PBF’s Chalmette Refinery in Louisiana, US, dedicated to the biorefining and production of HVO Diesel (Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil, commonly known as ‘renewable diesel’ in North America). The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals.

Dentons advises CSG on the acquisition of Fiocchi Munizioni

December 2, 2022

Dentons assisted Czechoslovak Group (CSG), an industrial group active globally in various strategic business segments including defense and aerospace, in the acquisition of a 70% stake in Fiocchi Munizioni, a global leader in small caliber ammunition for hunting, defense and sport. 

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