Insights

Washington – January 2, 2020: Crowell & Moring elected eight lawyers to the firm’s partnership, effective January 1, 2020. The firm also promoted seven attorneys to the position of senior counsel, and 26 associates to the position of counsel. The new partners have been promoted from within the ranks of the firm’s Washington, Los Angeles, and San Francisco offices. The new partners have been promoted from across offices and practice groups, including White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement, Health Care, International Trade, Intellectual Property, Privacy & Cybersecurity, Government Contracts, Litigation, and Antitrust.

Washington – February 22, 2019: Crowell & Moring LLP’s Antitrust Group has again been recognized as “Highly Recommended” in Global Competition Review’s (GCR) 19th edition of the “GCR 100” – the leading ranking of the world’s competition policy law and economics practices. This marks the fourth year in a row in which the firm was ranked as “Highly Recommended” in Washington, D.C. and New York. Additionally, the group was ranked as “Recommended” in California. GCR is the leading international journal of competition policy and regulation.

Washington, D.C. – January 22, 2015: Crowell & Moring LLP's Antitrust Group has again been recognized as "highly recommended" in Global Competition Review's (GCR) 15th edition of the "GCR 100: The World's Leading Competition Practices," in both the Washington, D.C. and New York categories. GCR is the leading international journal of competition policy and regulation.

The Seventh Circuit issued an opinion yesterday that makes it easier for the U.S. antitrust laws to be applied to international price-fixing cartels that are alleged to have injured U.S. companies and consumers.  Continuing a trend started by the Third Circuit in Animal Sci. Prods. v. China Minmetals Corp., 654 F.3d 462 (3d Cir. 2011), the Seventh Circuit held that the Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvement Act of 1982 (the “FTAIA”) imposes an additional substantive merits limitation on Sherman Act claims involving foreign trade or commerce, instead of a limitation on the subject matter jurisdiction of the federal courts.  The decision in Minn-Chem, Inc., et al., v. Agrium Inc., et al., Case No. 10-1712 (7th Cir. June 27, 2012), means that defendants will now face an increased burden when seeking dismissal of antitrust claims involving alleged foreign anticompetitive conduct.