Practice Areas
Competition & Antitrust
The ScottHulse PC competition and antitrust attorneys have successfully represented clients in cases brought under federal and state antitrust laws by both government and private litigants. We have been consistently recognized as one of the region’s leading competition and antitrust law firms with a practice encompassing both litigation and business counseling.
Our attorneys have experience handling cases regarding:
- Class actions and allegations of price fixing
- Market division
- Group boycotts
- Predatory pricing
- Tying arrangements and price discrimination
- Allegations of RICO and False Claims Act violations
- Tortious interference
- Fraud
- Trade disparagement
- Misappropriation of trade secrets
Select Representations:
- Successfully defended steel fabricators whose joint venture in a large, unique municipal construction project was attacked as a price fixing scheme.
- Achieved a satisfactory and advantageous settlement of a price fixing and False Claims Act claim against a food supplier.
- Successfully represented hospitals and other health care providers in various proceedings.
- Successfully represented a multi-national concrete and cement supplier accused of predatory pricing.
- Successfully represented a newspaper publisher accused of predatory pricing.
- Successfully negotiated and prepared an agreement between two competing national entities which effected consolidation of production to increase competition at one level of a multi-level industry.
