Antitrust

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Provided by Wilkinson Stekloff LLP

Wilkinson Stekloff has quickly become the go-to firm for clients who want to litigate antitrust cases with an eye toward trial rather than settlement. We have had success in a number of high-profile, bet-the-company antitrust cases, focusing on developing a strategy for winning at trial that has delivered positive results for our clients before trial. We represent clients in civil and criminal matters, in courts and in agency proceedings.

Among our many representative matters was prevailing in the second-largest merger trial in American history and an outright win on summary judgment that was selected as one of the “Impact Cases” of the year by Benchmark Litigation and "Matter of the Year" by Global Competition Review. In Federal Trade Commission v. Microsoft Corporation, et al., Wilkinson Stekloff secured a groundbreaking victory for Microsoft over its $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard. The firm's attorneys defeated the FTC’s request for a preliminary injunction to stop the transaction after a five-day trial that began less than two weeks after the FTC filed its federal court complaint. Wilkinson Stekloff directed all aspects of litigation strategy from the time the acquisition was announced in January 2022, positioning the case for a federal court victory on an unprecedented timeline.