Joint Venture Formation: Avoiding Antitrust Liability
Assessing Risk, Negotiating Terms and Structuring the Entity to Minimize Antitrust Exposure
Recording of a 90-minute CLE webinar with Q&A
This CLE webinar will provide antitrust counsel with a review of the current legal environment for joint ventures. The panel will offer best practices to counsel for negotiating and structuring arrangements between business entities that avoid antitrust violations.
Outline
- Antitrust law overview
- Sherman Act
- Clayton Act
- FTC Act
- American Needle Inc v. National Football League
- Antitrust risks: summary condemnation and criminal conduct
- Practical risk assessment
- Mitigating risk
- Joint venture case studies
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key questions:
- What are the antitrust statutes and cases counsel need to know when reviewing joint ventures?
- What distinguishes a rule-of-reason standard from per se antitrust violations?
- What needs to be considered when conducting a joint venture's risk assessment?
- How can a joint venture's risk of antitrust violation(s) be mitigated?
Following the speaker presentations, you'll have an opportunity to get answers to your specific questions during the interactive Q&A.
Faculty
J. Brady Dugan
Partner
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
He represents both individuals and corporations in civil and criminal antitrust, fraud and related matters. His... | Read More
He represents both individuals and corporations in civil and criminal antitrust, fraud and related matters. His practice includes litigation as well as government and internal investigations. He also provides advice on issues related to antitrust and fraud compliance. He has significant experience with the antitrust review of mergers and acquisitions in a variety of industries.
CloseEdward B. Schwartz
Partner
Steptoe & Johnson
He has over 25 years of experience representing clients in antitrust cases and other complex disputes. During that... | Read More
He has over 25 years of experience representing clients in antitrust cases and other complex disputes. During that time, he has aggressively and successfully defended his clients in class action and other cases alleging a variety of antitrust claims, including, among others, conspiratorial conduct, unilateral conduct, and price discrimination.
CloseAnthony W. Swisher
Partner
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
He counsels clients on a wide range of antitrust issues, including proposed merger transactions, distribution, pricing... | Read More
He counsels clients on a wide range of antitrust issues, including proposed merger transactions, distribution, pricing practices, and joint ventures. He is experienced in all phases of government antitrust merger investigations, from analysis of Hart-Scott-Rodino pre-merger filing issues to advocacy before enforcement agencies during the investigatory process, to negotiation of consent decrees.
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