Antitrust & Competition

Comprehensive antitrust and competition services to protect your interests, grow your business, and close your deals

Reed Smith offers the full spectrum of antitrust and competition services across key jurisdictions worldwide, when the outcome of your transaction depends on effective regulatory navigation. Our multidisciplinary team works in close partnership with clients to construct strategies that bridge the gap between their legal requirements and commercial objectives.

With lawyers in key jurisdictions around the globe, we support clients from a broad range of business sectors – including energy, transportation, pharmaceuticals, financial services, and manufacturing – advising on critical areas such as merger control, FDI clearance, antitrust compliance, and obtaining state aid. Our team also has extensive experience representing clients during antitrust investigations, civil litigation, and class actions.

Understanding and strategically tackling the complexities of antitrust and competition matters – from business expansions into new jurisdictions to state aid-associated risks linked to a proposed acquisition – is where we excel. We work with our clients to identify potential areas of antitrust risk at the outset of each project or acquisition, helping them to find solutions and swiftly close the deal.

We are also on hand and able to mount a robust defense for our clients facing enforcement action. Whether it’s a state or federal antitrust investigation for allegations of anticompetitive practices or a large-scale class action, our lawyers have served as counsel in dozens of disputes – civil and criminal, mediations, and trials – routinely achieving outcomes that are highly favorable to our clients. 

“Reed Smith’s knowledge, expertise, and sophistication are extremely advanced. They provide trusted advice, recommendations and legal strategies for addressing complex issues.”

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