Understanding Antitrust & Competition Strategies

Eric Berman is a partner in Williams Mullen’s Washington, DC office, where he chairs the Antitrust & Trade Regulation practice.  He has broad antitrust experience across numerous industries, with particular emphasis on counseling firms about their business practices and securing antitrust approvals for clients from the Federal Trade Commission and Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice.  Eric also has significant litigation experience, and is a frequent writer and speaker on antitrust issues.     

Mr. Berman also focuses on consumer protection matters.  He represents advertisers before the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, and provides counsel on comparative advertising, endorsement, and claim substantiation issues.  Clients – particularly home goods manufacturers and dietary supplement marketers – look to Eric to assess their marketing claims under federal and state laws as well as National Advertising Division decisions.    

Samer Musallam is a senior associate in the Antitrust and Competition practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office.  He has extensive experience in antitrust, competition, distribution law and trade regulation matters. Mr. Musallam has represented clients in complex private litigation, price‑fixing class actions, merger clearances, monopolization lawsuits, dealer termination suits, and domestic and international antitrust investigations. His counseling and trial experiences cover a wide range of industries, including airlines, urethane chemicals, medical devices, wireless baseband chips, mining and material handling equipment, diesel engines, waste management services, malt beverages, scrap metal, and the locomotive and railroad industries.

James J. Calder devotes his practice to antitrust and competition law.  He is co-chair of Katten’s Antitrust and Competition Practice.

His practice includes the full range of antitrust and competition matters – litigation, investigations, M&A, premerger notification, joint ventures and counseling.  His work involves both civil and criminal antitrust issues.  Approximately one third of his work is international or cross-border.  James has helped design and structure dozens of joint ventures involving competitors.  Some are purely domestic, others are international and need to comply with the competition law requirements of multiple jurisdictions.

He has handled antitrust matters for clients in more than 50 different industries including apparel, aviation, food and beverages, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, health care, consumer and military electronics, motion pictures, recorded music, financial services and information technology.