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Antitrust
Cartel / Criminal Investigations
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When governments agencies in the United States, Europe and Asia coordinate their investigative resources and simultaneously bear down on companies’ global operations, few law firms can handle the pressure and fight back. Howrey has proven skills in marshalling and strategically directing the legal forces to prevail in contentious cartel investigations and dominant firm cases.
Howrey’s Transatlantic Cartel Team can respond immediately to unannounced investigations by the antitrust authorities and develop a company's strategic response in these difficult circumstances.
Massive investigations – such as the 2006 air cargo price-fixing investigation involving coordinated action by regulators from the US, Canada, the European Commission, Switzerland, Japan and Korea – are on the rise, placing executives and their companies at significant risk. Multijurisdictional investigations may cost a company hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties and massive follow-on civil litigation. This causes untold disruption to business operations.
Howrey has a highly experienced team of cartel specialists who have developed proven preventative programs and integrated defense strategies to prevent, protect against exposure to, and mitigate risks associated with government cartel and criminal investigations including: - Compliance programs
- Labor and employment issues
- Directors’ liability
- Leniency applications
- Securities and stock exchange disclosures
- US government contracting debarment actions
- Grand jury investigations
- Antitrust division prosecutions
- EC “dawn raid” investigations
- EC administrative enforcement proceedings
- National criminal and administrative investigations
- US class action proceedings
- Civil litigation in EC member states
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