Global Cross-Border Practice: Outbound from China
Sidley’s international Antitrust/Competition practice combines experience and innovation to help clients achieve their business objectives. Our clients include corporations of all sizes, trade associations, governmental entities, professional societies and individuals.
We advise clients around the globe on the full range of civil and criminal antitrust matters, from day-to-day counseling on business practices to "bet-the-company" antitrust challenges. Our experience ranges from representing clients in litigation concerning anti-competitive conduct to counseling clients on pricing, sales and distribution practices to defending major corporate mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures or other conduct in government investigations.
Merger Clearances
We also counsel clients concerning contemplated mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, and represent them in the merger control process. We advise on both friendly and hostile transactions, and have also contested third-party mergers or acquisitions that would adversely affect our clients and competition in the market generally. We have experience negotiating with enforcement authorities and litigating to defend a transaction when it is challenged in court.
Our lawyers assist clients negotiate remedies to address the concerns of antitrust authorities in merger control proceedings. We have significant experience in obtaining judicial and administrative approval for merger remedies, as well as in advising clients with respect to the on-going compliance obligations under such remedies. In the EU, our lawyers have assisted companies in negotiating changes to merger remedies previously accepted by the European Commission as a condition for clearing a transaction.
We handle merger filings and clearances in the United States and the European Union and have represented parties to mergers that have been reviewed by antitrust authorities in many other jurisdictions, including China, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Japan and Mexico. We have extensive experience in identifying the jurisdictions where pre-merger notifications may be required, and formulating strategy in connection with such filings and any ensuing proceedings.