Tulsa Antitrust Attorneys
The Firm offers guidance and counseling in various antitrust matters, including those arising under state, federal and international competition laws. We recognize that national and international antitrust and competition laws permeate all aspects of business transactions, regardless of the size of the transaction.
Our Transaction Practice Group frequently navigates antitrust issues arising under the Sherman Act, Robinson-Patman Act, Lanham Act, Federal Trade Commission Act, including:
- B2B and B2B Internet Exchange
- Distribution and Pricing Issues for Manufacturers, Distributors & Retailers
- EC Competition and Distribution Issues
- Franchisor / Franchisee Relations
- Joint Ventures & Collaboration Among Competitors
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Pre-merger Notification under Hart-Scott-Rodino Act
Transaction antitrust attorneys:
Our Healthcare Practice Group regularly addresses antitrust issues that are unique to the healthcare field, including:
- Compliance with DOJ / FTC Statement of Enforcement Policy in Healthcare
- Licensing and Staff Privileges
- Messenger Model Reimbursement Negotiations
- Healthcare Joint Ventures & Collaboration Among Competitors
- Physician Cooperative Bargaining Ventures
- Mergers & Hart-Scott-Rodino Issues
Healthcare antitrust attorneys:
Our Water Law Practice Group handles unique competition issues arising in the area of water service providers.
Water law antitrust attorneys are:
Our Litigation Practice Group has considerable experience in litigating antitrust claims arising under the myriad of state and federal antitrust and unfair competition laws. Because the sources of antitrust and unfair competition laws are so vast, our experience is equally as broad. Some of the cases we have litigated include:
- False and deceptive advertising under the Lanham Act and Oklahoma Deceptive Trade Practices Act
- Refusals to deal, group boycotts, and market allocation under the Sherman Act
- Primary and secondary price discrimination on behalf of manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, and franchisees
- Predatory pricing under the Sherman Act
- Tying arrangements and patent leveraging under the Sherman Act
- Dual distribution and price discrimination under both the Sherman Act and Robinson-Patman Act
- Regulated utilities, including cross subsidization and essential facilities
- Non-regulated utilities, including protected service territories claimed by water service providers water law / water service territory
- Healthcare, including physician staff privileges, access to preferred provider organizations, and messenger model reimbursement
- Essential facilities in manufacturing and intellectual property domain
- Deceptive trade practices, including passing off, trademark / trade name infringement, misappropriation of trade secrets.
Because of the high stakes nature of treble damage civil antitrust lawsuits, the Firm is committed to providing state of the art technology that enables our attorneys to represent clients in complex litigation and multi-district litigation.
