Antitrust and Competition

Global challenges require a global response. Latham & Watkins delivers integrated services across a network of offices that work together anywhere in the world. Our practice is built around highly qualified practitioners, accustomed to working across borders and fully aware of both the local and international dimensions of competition issues. Our clients benefit from our integrated approach, coordinated across specialties and jurisdictions.

The members of our Global Antitrust & Competition Practice live and work in the world's major antitrust jurisdictions and have first-hand experience in dozens of other countries. Most are multilingual, speaking at least two – and often more – languages fluently. They are equally at home with local laws and regulations, judicial and regulatory authorities, and their regional and international counterparts.

No US firm matches Latham & Watkins' scope and depth of experience globally – in every corner of the world. No firm outside the US combines our record of success in the US – historically the world's most sophisticated and experienced antitrust jurisdiction – with a premier antitrust practice that circles the globe.

Practice Breadth

Latham & Watkins has an expanded, premier antitrust law team.

• In Washington, D.C., a full-service antitrust practice, capable of handling the most complex US antitrust issues, as well as offering unmatched expertise in international competition matters.

• In New York, the center of M&A activity in the US, a merger clearance team led by a leading expert in the Hart-Scott-Rodino process and a litigation team with extensive cartel defense experience.

• In San Francisco, our well-established team offers unrivaled skill in litigation, antitrust and technology issues and government relations/merger clearance.

• Nationwide, trial lawyers accustomed to litigating the most complex and sophisticated cases, with dozens of major antitrust suits under their belts.

• Best-in-class experience in merger notifications and investigation proceedings in Latin America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Venezuela), Africa (Kenya, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe) and the Asia/Pacific region (Australia, Japan and New Zealand). This practice is served from Washington, D.C.

With a premier competition law team in Europe that operates at both the EC and member state levels, Latham is one of the few firms with experienced, local attorneys, expert in all aspects of European competition law.

• In Brussels, a top-of-class competition team with comprehensive experience in the major courts and tribunals and wide-ranging expertise in merger clearance, “dominant firm” issues and State aid, as well as substantial court experience.

• In Paris, a highly regarded competition group whose preeminence in French competition law is matched by its extensive experience in EC practice.

• In Germany, Latham & Watkins features a top-of-class competition team with lawyers based in Hamburg, Frankfurt and Munich who have comprehensive experience in merger control, cartel and abuse of dominance proceedings before the German Bundeskartellamt, the European Commission, as well as German courts and the ECJ/CFI. They are also recognized market leaders in EC state aid and trade law.
• In London, unsurpassed expertise in EC marketing practices and distribution regulation, coupled with an up-to-the-minute understanding of UK competition developments, such as evolving Office of Fair Trading enforcement.

• In Italy, competition law experts based in Milan and Brussels.