We advocate for clients — targets of investigations and third parties — before federal and state regulators, including the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Reserve, the Federal Communications Commission and state attorneys general. We also appear before international antitrust enforcement bodies, like the European Commission, the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority and the Canadian Competition Bureau.
Key cases:
SCL attorneys led a group of merchant challengers to Visa’s rules that violated the Durbin Amendment, Section 1075 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. That advocacy resulted in a Federal Reserve clarification of the Durbin regulations and an FTC enforcement action against Visa’s rules.
SCL attorneys represented StubHub before several state attorneys general and the Justice Department regarding restraints that Ticketmaster and the National Football League put in place over the resale of NFL tickets. As a result of this advocacy, policies that precluded the resale of these tickets under their face value were abandoned.
SCL attorneys defended the Louisiana Real Estate Appraisers Board in FTC Part 3 administrative proceedings. The parties ultimately settled the dispute with the commission denying complainant counsel’s motion for partial summary judgment on a key defense.