Why MoFo?
Facing a private antitrust action, drawing the scrutiny of government enforcers, or looking to bring your own antitrust claim? Our antitrust litigation team will help you understand your options and develop an approach that fits your particular need. Whether a client's objectives are best realized by strategic motion practice, trial, settlement, or an alternative path, we have the tools, techniques, and artistry to craft the solution. We collaborate with our clients to identify the path that maximizes results and minimizes legal and business risks.
That's part of why we were named Antitrust Litigation "Law Firm of the Year" by U.S.News/Best Lawyers for 2011-2012—an award based on client and peer feedback on our expertise, responsiveness, integrity, cost-effectiveness, and depth of business understanding.
What Does MoFo Bring to the Table?
We have:
- An industry-leading understanding of price-fixing, vertical restraints, monopolization, and price discrimination claims
- The complex litigation know-how to address class certification, multidistrict proceedings, discovery, and expert testimony
- A great facility with often-complicated antitrust economics
- The expertise of former government officials from the Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
We also have one of the deepest litigation benches in the world that includes 120 lawyers with first-chair trial experience, and we are the only law firm to have four lawyers on National Law Journal's annual "Winning" list four years running.
Our Track Record of Success
Our antitrust litigators' record of success spans civil and criminal matters; individual and class actions; full trials and appeals; and every substantive area of antitrust. Our lawyers have:
- Won dismissals of six large antitrust class actions over the past three years in California, Georgia, Oklahoma, and Massachusetts
- Secured dismissal of 51 separate nationwide class action conspiracy claims in In re LTL Shipping Services Antitrust Litigation
- Convinced the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to uphold two summary judgment victories for our client against a long-running class action in In re ATM Fee Antitrust Litigation
- Achieved the first court win in over a decade against an FTC merger challenge in a non-healthcare case in FTC v. Arch Coal
- Secured a rare corporate not-guilty verdict after a full criminal antitrust trial in U.S. v. APAC-Missouri, Inc.
- Represented clients in well over 50 antitrust grand jury proceedings spanning every regional office and the National Criminal Trial Section of the DOJ Antitrust Division
- Obtained a unanimous decision from the FTC—affirmed by the U.S Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit—after a full administrative trial in In re Realcomp