Case Profiles
Anti-Trust
The Group has been heavily engaged in a number of the major anti-trust cases of the past ten years, working in both the U.S. and Europe. Our approach has varied depending on the case.
One typical product is an "event tree", not unlike a decision tree in decision analysis. We work with our clients and their legal teams to determine all foreseeable eventualities considerably before any might occur. Then, working with the client and the client's legal team, we develop messages and strategies for dealing with each. By planning in a disciplined manner well in advance, we give our clients and their legal teams the ability to respond to events at a moment's notice with fully vetted statements and plans. The result is a far greater degree of message control than they would otherwise have had.
When it is appropriate aggressively to advocate our client's position in the media, we turn to a large network of legal and economic authorities, experts who by their view of the law and economics are likely to be sympathetic to a company under anti-trust fire. Working with such authorities, we carry the client's message into the op-ed columns and other media aimed at legal and policy elites.
On a number of occasions we have helped draft sophisticated economic and legal analyses of these cases, analyses that were later, often with our assistance, circulated in legal and policy communities - either in the specialized or general media, or on policy websites, or at elite briefings that we helped organize.
We have also been active on competition policy in the European Community. Focusing on policy elites, we have been partnering with economic and policy experts to build an understanding of the economic costs of an excessively intrusive policy.
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