Antitrust litigation handled by the Firm includes cases involving charges of monopolization, discriminatory pricing, price fixing, unfair trade practices and illegal tying actions. The Firm has been involved in multi-district as well as class action antitrust cases. The antitrust group’s attorneys also represent clients involving investigations before the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, as well as actions by State Attorneys General.

Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, L.C. counsels clients in the areas of antitrust compliance, distribution and franchise practices, mergers and acquisitions, tender offers, pricing matters, and Hart-Scott-Rodino pre-merger and acquisition filings. In the health care area, the Firm counsels hospitals, doctors, and managed care organizations concerning antitrust aspects of the health care industry.

Lewis, Rice & Fingersh’s antitrust practice has involved many major antitrust lawsuits and issues throughout the country including:

• Monopolization, illegal tying of products, predatory pricing and other anti-competitive activities in the bicycle and bicycle component industry in the United States and world markets;
• Monopolization and illegal restraints of trade in the market for professional hockey sports entertainment in the United States and Canada;
• Price fixing, predatory pricing and other restraints of trade in the steel pipe industry in the United States;
• Monopolization and price fixing in multi-district litigation;
• Robinson-Patman Act claims, predatory pricing, illegal restraints of trade and monopolization involving printed newspapers and advertising.;
• In the health care area, the antitrust aspects of peer review groups, shared services, managed care organizations, and horizontal and vertical mergers and acquisitions.