Debevoise’s Antitrust Group combines top-quality analysis, a thorough understanding of the law and an in-depth familiarity with regulatory and judicial processes to solve clients’ most challenging antitrust problems.

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Ranked as a leading firm for Antitrust.

They have broad expertise and can handle a range of complex matters.

The team is highly commercial and is well attuned to the client's business and transactional objectives. They consistently parlay that awareness into solution-oriented, practical advice.

Debevoise excels in the quality of its antitrust litigation attorneys, both partners and associates. It is strategic, thoughtful, thorough and focused on client needs

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP's team has considerable experience of offering litigation advice across a multitude of national and foreign jurisdictions. The team is also recognized for its ability to handle large-scale mergers and government investigations.

Debevoise & Plimpton is an excellent team with a great depth of capabilities and experience handling multi-jurisdictional issues.

—Chambers USA, 2023-2026

Technically very strong across EU member states' FDI and antitrust regimes.

The Debevoise team is highly client-focused, efficient, and decisive. The team is tapped into other jurisdictions and deals with challenges and differences pragmatically and transparently.

Debevoise’s EU and competition team delivers precise, commercially grounded advice and excels in coordinating complex, multi-jurisdictional regulatory work.

—The Legal 500 UK, 2027

Their depth of knowledge is extremely impressive and was always available whenever our internal team had any questions.

Excels at handling matters with an international dimension in addition to its domestic litigation expertise.

Very hands-on, responsive, and experienced.

The “very reliable” antitrust litigators at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP “seamlessly work together.”

—The Legal 500 US, 2019-2026

Timothy McIver listed as a Global leader for Competition.

Who’s Who Legal, 2023

Ted Hassi named Antitrust Litigator of the Year.

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Featured Topic – Foreign Direct Investment

Foreign direct investment (FDI) regimes have proliferated in response to Covid-19 and other geopolitical shocks as Governments worldwide have become increasingly protective of domestic sectors with strategic value. Our Antitrust Group has extensive experience in navigating the expanding global FDI landscape, and coordinating multi-jurisdictional clearances in tandem with the merger control process and any CFIUS review. We create the strategy to help our clients plan and execute complex cross-border deals with confidence and in a timely fashion. This expertise is especially valuable in today’s assertive enforcement environment.

The team works alongside our National Security practice on FDI matters. See here for more details.

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In an era of increasingly aggressive antitrust enforcement, public and private companies need experienced antitrust advisers to guide them through and around regulatory scrutiny. Debevoise’s Antitrust Group combines top-quality analysis, a thorough understanding of the law and an in-depth familiarity with regulatory and judicial processes to solve clients’ most challenging antitrust problems. Debevoise antitrust lawyers are creative and relentless in their efforts to secure approval of corporate transactions from competition authorities in the United States and abroad. We advise public and private companies and private equity sponsors on strategies to mitigate antitrust risk in connection with mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures. Our collaborative, cross-disciplinary approach to problem-solving brings together subject matter experts in intellectual property, banking, insurance, and other industries with antitrust specialists to resolve complex issues and look around corners for looming challenges ahead.On the enforcement front, our lawyers handle the most novel and difficult matters initiated by the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, state Attorneys General, and the European Commission. We represent companies and executives in cases involving allegations of price-fixing, wage-fixing, bid-rigging, and market division, as well as allegedly monopolistic conduct by successful innovators. Our deep bench of former prosecutors and regulatory counsel draws upon dozens of years of enforcement expertise to bring a sophisticated, analytic approach to interactions with regulators – and, if necessary, to the courtroom. The firm’s antitrust work involves a wide variety of industries, including Internet product distribution, financial services, cable television and other media, pharmaceuticals, alcoholic beverages, consumer products, airlines, automobile rentals, mining and manufacturing, and transportation.Chambers USA and Legal 500 US laud Debevoise’s Antitrust Group for combining “strong transactional expertise with considerable strength in handling complex litigation” and providing “well-rounded services…across a wide range of industries.” Clients view Debevoise antitrust lawyers as powerful and effective allies who are “incredibly hard-working and skilled at devising strategies” to anticipate, address, and resolve clients’ most challenging antitrust problems.

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