Antitrust and Competition

Paul Hastings represents many of the world’s leading business and financial enterprises in their most significant antitrust and competition matters.

Global Reach with a Multidisciplinary Approach

Our antitrust and competition lawyers:

• mounted the last successful courtroom defense to a U.S. government merger challenge;
• obtained clearance for the first-ever financial services merger in China;
• have defended more than fifteen transcontinental cartel investigations over the past two years, are defending hundreds of consolidated class action price-fixing lawsuits; and
• are among few firms to have successfully defeated class certification in an antitrust case.

Our team of former U.S. federal prosecutors, coupled with our international presence, gives us leading capability and experience coordinating and defending cartel investigations across continents. And we are among only a handful of firms worldwide with the capability to defend associated “follow-on” civil litigation from these investigations in all three major antitrust jurisdictions: Asia, the United States, and Europe.

Our antitrust litigators have handled civil antitrust cases in more than 35 states and territories since 2000.

In addition, Paul Hastings is among only a few firms anywhere in the world to count, among its merger clearance practice, lawyers who have successfully tried multiple merger cases before the U.S. federal courts.

Client Service Excellence Delivered Worldwide

We measure our success by the results we obtain for our clients.

Client businesses do not have borders. Neither do we, with competition specialists in Asia (Tokyo, Beijing, Hong Kong), the United States (Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Washington, D.C.) and Europe (London, Paris, Brussels, Milan, Frankfurt). Our work for clients across the globe gives us the experience and understanding to guide and counsel our clients through the growing matrix of national competition laws.