Our experience in antitrust enforcement, litigation, and counseling gives us insights with which to advise clients efficiently and confidently.  Our counseling work covers the full range of antitrust and competition issues. We can provide practical advice on dealings with competitors and customers that enables compliance with competition rules while meeting business goals.

We have provided ongoing antitrust counseling to a number of significant companies, including Apple, Abbott Laboratories, Allied Waste, Bayer, Baxter International, Campbell Soup, Cardinal Health, CBS, Chevron, CIGNA, Clear Channel Communications, COLT Telecom España, Dell, Essilor International, GenCorp/Aerojet, General Motors, GSM Association, Koch Industries, ICANN, International Steel Group, Liberty Media, MasterCard, Nextel, Procter & Gamble, Viacom, SES Multimedia, Texas Instruments, Toyota, Underwriters Laboratories, and Yale New Haven Health System.

Jones Day’s counseling work covers the full range of antitrust and competition law issues, including monopolization and attempted monopolization, distribution and pricing practices, refusals to deal, exclusive dealing, teaming agreements, licensing, setting standards, criminal antitrust investigations, state aid, and premerger notification.  Based on this broad experience, we can provide practical advice on dealings with competitors and customers to seek compliance with competition rules while meeting business goals.

Jones Day lawyers have dealt with the antitrust or competition agencies of more than 50 countries. Our antitrust partners include alumni of antitrust agencies in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, bringing us insights into government investigations and decisionmaking.  Jones Day is the only firm to have had two of its antitrust partners selected, within a period of just four years, to head both U.S. antitrust agencies.