Firm Description

Sidley Austin LLP is one of the world’s largest law firms, with a practice highly attuned to the ever-changing international landscape. The firm has built a reputation for being a powerful advisor for global business, with approximately 1700 lawyers in 17 offices worldwide. Sidley maintains a commitment to providing quality legal services wherever they are needed, offering advice in transactional, regulatory and litigation matters spanning virtually every area of law. The firm’s lawyers leverage their diversity of knowledge and wide-reaching legal backgrounds with a dedication to teamwork, collaboration and superior client service.

Sidley has one of the leading international antitrust/competition practices, with approximately 90 lawyers in the United States, the European Union and China who combine experience and innovation to help clients achieve their global business objectives.

Our lawyers advise clients around the globe on the full range of civil and criminal antitrust matters, from day-to-day counselling on business practices to “bet-the-company” antitrust challenges. Our experience ranges from representing clients in litigation concerning anticompetitive conduct to counselling on pricing, sales, and distribution practices to defending major corporate mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures or other conduct in government investigations. Our antitrust work is characterized by:

• its diverse sector coverage (serving clients in high-tech, consumer goods and services, and basic industries alike);
• its incorporation of increasingly sophisticated economic analysis;
• our extensive experience in antitrust matters involving patents and other intellectual property; and
• the ability of our lawyers to prepare and handle even the largest and most complex cases.