Antitrust
Notable Representations, Key Contacts
Weil’s global Antitrust team provides clients with the international reach and extensive expertise required to handle complex and rapidly shifting antitrust and foreign investment rules around the world. Our team has a proven track record of achieving successful and innovative outcomes for clients across the full range of transactional and behavioral antitrust and foreign investment matters.
“An exceptional group of attorneys with deep experience representing clients before government agencies.”
Antitrust M&A:
With our deep experience in handling complex cross-border merger review processes and our position at the forefront of shaping antitrust policy, Weil has been trusted to provide effective global strategic counseling, agency representation, and litigation defense for many of the largest, highest-profile transactions in recent years.
Antitrust Litigation:
Weil has a strong reputation for successfully defending clients in their most high-stakes civil and criminal antitrust litigations, achieving the best outcomes at trial and on appeal in respect of the full range of cutting-edge antitrust issues, with particular success in class action litigations.
Cartels & Investigations:
With our deep expertise and global reach, Weil is regularly called upon by clients across the globe to guide them through all phases of criminal and civil cartel investigations. We have consistently obtained favorable results, earning the practice recognition among the top cartel defense firms in the world.
Global Recognition
50
Speaking Engagements, Latest Thinking, Firm News & Announcements
Speaking Engagements
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The Revival of the Robinson-Patman Act: Understanding the New Landscape
Speaker(s):
Yehudah L. Buchweitz
May 1, 2025 — New York, NY — Complex Commercial Litigation partner Yehudah L. Buchweitz led a discussion titled “The Revival of the Robinson-Patman Act: Understanding the New Landscape” at Practising Law Institute’s 2025 Developments in Antitrust Law & Regulation conference. Yehudah discussed the history of the Robinson-Patman Act, key considerations in bringing and defending against a Robinson-Patman Act claim, and understanding new enforcement actions by the Federal Trade Commission.
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Into Thin Air: Disappearing and Deleted Messages & Telephone Calls
Speaker(s):
Meagan Bellshaw
February 26, 2025 — Weil Antitrust partner Meagan Bellshaw served as a panelist on a webinar hosted by the ABA’s “Civil Practice and Procedure Committee” entitled “Into Thin Air: Disappearing and Deleted Messages & Telephone Calls”. Panelists discussed recent developments, best practices, and litigation strategies concerning disappearing and deleted messages, telephone calls, and other chat systems – including key lessons from U.S. v. Google.
Latest Thinking
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Catch me if you can: what next for EU merger policy towards below threshold transactions?
Blog Post — WorthWeil Antitrust Blog
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Niklas Maydell,
Annagiulia Zanazzo,
Chris Chapman and
Clémence Coppin
— March 14, 2025
On 10 January 2025, Nvidia brought an action against the European Commission (“EC”)’s decision to review Nvidia’s acquisition of Run:ai, following a referral request from the Italian competition authority under Article 22 of the EU Merger Regulation (“EUMR”). The deal failed to meet both the EUMR and the Italian merger thresholds, and was ‘called in’ ...
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Labor Harms Remain a Focus for Trump’s Antitrust Enforcers
Blog Post — WorthWeil Antitrust Blog
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Jasmine Rosner,
Joe Ehrenkrantz,
Katie Rider and
Mia Smutny
— March 06, 2025
On February 26, 2025, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Andrew Ferguson announced a Directive Regarding Labor Markets Task Force (Directive) to create a task force to investigate and prosecute activity that harms workers in violation of the antitrust or consumer protection laws. As one of the first actions by the Trump FTC, Chairman Ferguson’s Directive ...
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Antitrust under Trump 2.0: Early signs point to aggressive merger enforcement
Blog Post — WorthWeil Antitrust Blog
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Jasmine Rosner,
Rob Meyer,
Drew Cypher and
Amita Chauhan
— February 28, 2025
The DOJ’s recent suit against HPE-Juniper and the Agencies’ commitment to the 2023 Merger Guidelines is an early sign that antitrust scrutiny of mergers is will remain a priority in the Trump administration. ...
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A new dawn, a new day for UK merger control: are investors feeling good?
Blog Post — WorthWeil Antitrust Blog
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Jenine Hulsmann and
Chris Chapman
— February 17, 2025
A new dawn, a new day for UK merger control: are investors feeling good? In what is shaping up to be the most consequential reform of UK merger control in over a decade, the government and the Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”) each published on 13 February the equivalent of Jeff Bezos’ “Day 1” letter ...
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“I See Roses, You See Thorns”: Antitrust Approaches to ESG Diverge Across the Atlantic
Blog Post — WorthWeil Antitrust Blog
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Brianne Kucerik,
Nafees Saeed,
Patrick May and
Spencer Talbot
— February 14, 2025
With the inauguration of President Trump, organizations should reflect on internal policies as divergence across the Atlantic to ESG collaborations continues. ...
Firm News & Announcements
- David Lender Named Among Crain’s NY Business’ “Notable Litigators & Trial Attorneys” for 2025 Firm Announcement — March 25, 2025
- The PTPA and Tennis Players File Historic Legal Actions Against Governing Bodies Exposing Corrupt, Illegal, and Abusive System Press Release — March 18, 2025
- Weil Advises Alterna Capital Partners on Sale of 40% Stake in Graphit Kropfmühl GmbH Deal Brief — March 17, 2025
- Weil Secures Second Circuit Victory for Saks Fifth Avenue in “No Hire” Antitrust Class Action Litigation Win — March 14, 2025
- Weil Advises Microsoft in CMA Investigation into Partnership with OpenAI Deal Brief — March 06, 2025
- Weil Advises PX3 Partners in Cleanova’s Definitive Agreement to Acquire Micronics Deal Brief — March 05, 2025