PRACTICE AREAS

ANTITRUST

The antitrust laws were designed to protect consumers and promote competition in the free enterprise system. Antitrust activity exists when an entity, or corporation, enters into anti-competitive agreements, obtains or maintains monopoly power by means that harm consumers or abuses its monopoly power.

The following are examples of some things that may violate the antitrust laws:

	Agreeing with a competitor to hold the price of similar products or services at, above, or below agreed-upon levels ("price-fixing")
	Agreeing with a competitor not to compete in a particular geographic area
	Lowering prices below cost to drive a competitor out of business ("predatory pricing")
	Requiring a buyer to buy something that he does not want in order to buy something that he does want ("tying")