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    Antitrust

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    S&C is a premier one-stop shop for clients’ global antitrust concerns with practices located in Washington, D.C., New York, London, and Brussels. Our award-winning Antitrust Group helps the world’s largest companies solve their most critical antitrust problems, from complex cross-border merger matters to criminal antitrust investigations, criminal antitrust no-poach and labor markets investigations, and sprawling civil antitrust investigations and litigation matters. We handle all types of antitrust matters, combining the talents of our unmatched transactional experience and our premier litigation practice. Highly regarded by our peers and trusted by government authorities, our antitrust lawyers are consistently recognized for giving practical, business-focused advice, and for effectively and efficiently navigating the changing regulatory environment.

    S&C boasts an enviable track record of securing antitrust clearances for large cross-border transactions, including ones that present complex antitrust issues. All of S&C’s antitrust lawyers are equipped to provide practical, business-focused insights to evaluating facts relevant to antitrust counseling, merger clearances, criminal antitrust investigations and trials. As a result, S&C’s antitrust team can seamlessly handle all aspects of an antitrust problem, even when counseling, merger clearances or preliminary investigations evolve into full-scale litigation. We also represent multiple parties in large-scale antitrust investigations and litigation on a routine basis.

    All our offices work together to provide antitrust advice and the Washington, D.C., New York, London, and Brussels offices work especially closely on antitrust matters, often with joint teams. Read more about our European Competition practice. S&C is frequently lauded by leading publications for our work in this area, including by Global Competition Review, Benchmark Litigation and Chambers & Partners.

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    Spotlight

    S&C Shortlisted for Financial Times’ Innovative Lawyers Europe Award for Bosch’s $8B Acquisition of Residential and Light Commercial HVAC Business from Johnson Controls and Hitachi

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    S&C a Finalist for New York Law Journal ’s ‘Litigation Department of the Year’

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    S&C Advises Guild Holdings in $1.3 Billion Sale to Bayview Asset Management

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    Four S&C Lawyers Newly Ranked in the Chambers USA 2025 Guide

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    Renata Hesse Named to GCR’s ‘Women In Antitrust’ 2025

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    Leading Expertise With Complex, High-Profile Matters

    S&C’s Global Antitrust Practice

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    Experience

    Experience

    S&C’s Antitrust Group handles the full range of antitrust counseling, litigation and investigations, including:

    • Cross-border merger clearance;
    • Complex litigation, including multidistrict class actions and follow-on litigation;
    • Civil antitrust investigations, including those by the Federal Trade Commission, UK Competition and Markets Authority, Germany’s Bundeskartellamt and the European Commission;
    • Criminal cartel investigations, including by the U.S. Department of Justice and European Commission;
    • Criminal antitrust investigations stemming from no-poach and wage-fixing agreements under the “Antitrust Guidance For Human Resource Professionals”;
    • Abuse of dominance investigations; and
    • State aid matters.
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    Rankings and Recognitions

    Rankings and Recognitions

    • S&C Shortlisted for Financial Times’ Innovative Lawyers Europe Award for Bosch’s $8B Acquisition of Residential and Light Commercial HVAC Business from Johnson Controls and Hitachi

      July 8, 2025
    • S&C a Finalist for New York Law Journal’s ‘Litigation Department of the Year’

      July 7, 2025
    • Four S&C Lawyers Newly Ranked in the Chambers USA 2025 Guide

      June 12, 2025
    • Renata Hesse Named to GCR’s ‘Women In Antitrust’ 2025

      June 4, 2025
    • Five S&C Partners Named to Lawdragon’s ‘500 Leading Global Antitrust & Competition Lawyers’ List

      January 30, 2025
    • S&C’s Antitrust and European Competition Practices Recognized in Global Competition Review’s 2025 GCR 100 Rankings

      December 27, 2024
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    News

    News

    • S&C Advises Guild Holdings in $1.3 Billion Sale to Bayview Asset Management

      July 1, 2025
    • S&C Advises B-Flexion in Boston Pharmaceuticals’ $2 Billion Sale to GSK

      May 30, 2025
    • S&C Advises Codelco in Deal with Rio Tinto to Develop Lithium Project in Chile

      May 27, 2025
    • S&C Advises Merck in Its Acquisition of SpringWorks Therapeutics

      May 2, 2025
    • S&C Advises Diageo on Strategic Joint Venture for Cîroc Ultra-Premium Vodka and Lobos 1707 Tequila

      April 9, 2025
    • xAI and X Merge in a $113 Billion Transaction

      March 28, 2025
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    Publications, Videos and Podcasts

    Publications, Videos and Podcasts

    • EU and UK Expand Sanctions Against Russia

      S&C Alerts |  May 21, 2025
    • EU Court Landmark Ruling Reinforces Transparency of EU Institutions

      S&C Memos |  May 15, 2025
    • Frank Aquila and Julia Liu Author The M&A Lawyer Article on Acquisition Agreements

      Articles |  April 23, 2025
    • Federal Banking Regulators Approve Proposed Merger Between Capital One Financial Corporation and Discover Financial Services

      S&C Memos |  April 20, 2025
    • S&C Sidebar – A Conversation with Amanda Davidoff and Samantha Hynes

      Podcasts |  April 17, 2025
    • Washington State Adopts Uniform Antitrust Premerger Notification Act

      S&C Memos |  April 14, 2025
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    Practice Contacts

    Practice Contacts

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    Renata B. Hesse
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    +1-202-956-7500
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    +1-650-461-5600
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    Steven L. Holley
    New York
    +1-212-558-4000
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    Juan Rodriguez
    London
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    Brussels
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