The Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) has continued to investigate and prosecute national and international cartels at an ever-increasing rate. Our attorneys have extensive experience defending both corporate and individual clients during the prosecution of alleged criminal violations of the US antitrust laws. We have represented clients during US grand jury investigations in diverse industries including food additives, computer memory devices, industrial chemicals, cellular phones, dairy foods, vitamins, orthopaedic implant devices, and industrial diamonds. Our attorneys have also defended the increasingly frequent private antitrust litigation which now regularly follows closely after the announcement of a government investigation. Our attorneys have obtained corporate amnesty agreements, negotiated countless plea agreements, as well as tried cases on their merits.
Outside the US, we have obtained leniency for corporate clients in the EU, Canada, and Australia, and defended cases in both EU and national jurisdictions. We have advised clients involved in cartel investigations in European countries. Our attorneys published the first authoritative textbook on the new UK competition law, which introduced criminal sanctions.
In a particularly significant criminal antitrust trial, we achieved dismissal of the US government's criminal case against GE for allegedly fixing the price of industrial diamonds. Other recent representations include Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. and Roche Vitamins Inc. in resolution of the largest criminal price-fixing case in US antitrust history and Micron Technology, Inc., in obtaining amnesty in connection with the DOJ's criminal investigation of DRAM pricing.