Bona Law attorneys Jarod Bona and Aaron Gott filed a petition for writ of certiorari at the U.S. Supreme Court January 8, 2019, asking it to weigh in on the scope of the state action immunity from federal antitrust law in a case involving city ambulance monopolies. The firm represents AmeriCare MedServices, Inc. in its lawsuits against 12 Orange County, California cities who […]
IR Global, the world’s largest exclusive network of advisory firms is delighted to introduce Boris Steinmair of Beer & Steinmair Rechtsanwalte OG. Boris has joined IR as our exclusive Competition Law Member in Austria. Beer & Steinmair is a Vienna-based boutique law firm focussed on Competition Law / IP Capital Market Law Corporate Law Distribution […]
Some lawyers focus on litigation. Other lawyers spend their time on transactions or mergers & acquisitions. Many lawyers offer some sort of legal counseling. And another group—often in Washington, DC or Brussels—spend their time close to the government, usually either administrative agencies or the legislature. But your friendly antitrust attorneys—the superheroes of lawyers—do all of this. That is part of what makes […]
Antitrust and competition law is a global issue. Markets that could be national are often global instead (because if they aren’t naturally local, there usually isn’t reason to stop at a country’s borders). Bona Law embraces this international reality. That is part of what attracted me to the firm upon my arrival in the United States after 15 […]
Author: Luis Blanquez Antitrust and competition law is a global issue. Markets that could be national are often global instead (because if they aren’t naturally local, there usually isn’t reason to stop at a country’s borders). Bona Law embraces this international reality. That is part of what attracted me to the firm upon my arrival in the United […]
Maybe everyone really is conspiring against you? If they are competitors—that is, they have a horizontal relationship—they may be committing a per se antitrust violation. A group boycott occurs when two or more persons or entities conspire to restrict the ability of someone from competing. This is sometimes called a concerted refusal to deal, which unlike […]
You might have a Lanham Act claim if your competitor is making false statements to promote its products or services in a way that deceives customers and injures you because you lost business, for example, as a result. Although many people think of the Lanham Act as a trademark statute—and it is—it also allows competitors to […]
The US Supreme Court has historically defined a group boycott as a concerted refusal to deal, or a group action designed to pressure another party into doing something by withholding or enlisting others to withhold patronage or services from the target. The Court, however, limits this doctrine to commercially motivated boycotts. In essence, a group boycott is […]
The Secretary of State’s decision to require Sky News to be sold as a condition of Fox’s bid being allowed to proceed, leaves the field open for a bidding war to take place involving Disney and Comcast. The decision not to intervene in respect of the Comcast bid does leave the long term future prospects […]
Have you ever considered the idea that your business would be much more profitable if you didn’t have to compete so hard with that pesky competitor or group of competitors? Unless you have no competition—which is great for profits, read Peter Thiel’s book—this notion has probably crossed your mind. And that’s okay—the government doesn’t indict and […]
Have you ever considered the idea that your business would be much more profitable if you didn’t have to compete so hard with that pesky competitor or group of competitors? Unless you have no competition—which is great for profits, read Peter Thiel’s book—this notion has probably crossed your mind. And that’s okay—the government doesn’t indict and […]
As an attorney defending an antitrust class action, your job is to get your client out of the case as expeditiously and inexpensively as possible. There are several exit points. For example, with a little help from the US Supreme Court’s Twombly decision, you might find your way out with a motion to dismiss, asserting (among other potential arguments) that plaintiffs fail to […]