We guide clients through the complex world of international merger control.
Working with buyers and sellers, SCL advises clients on how to minimize antitrust risk from the earliest stages of their deals to the end of the regulatory process. We negotiate merger agreements, prepare interim antitrust guidance for executives and employees, handle all aspects of Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) filings and investigations and defend any resulting claims. We also work with antitrust and competition agencies around the world, both directly and through our large network of international firms.
Key cases:
SCL attorneys successfully represented News Corp. in the antitrust review of its $5.6 billion acquisition of Chris-Craft Industries, an owner of television broadcast stations throughout the United States, and its sale of Fox Family Worldwide to the Walt Disney Company.
SCL attorneys co-led a team that successfully advocated against the merger to the Department of Justice, the Federal Communications Commission and 23 state attorneys general, arguing it violated the Clayton and Communications acts. As a result, the proposed merger was not consummated.
SCL attorneys successfully represented an objector to this transaction, resulting in the Justice Department and European Union challenging the deal, which culminated in a critical divestiture.
After successfully suing CareCore for unreasonable restraints of trade, SCL attorneys were retained to lead the defense of its merger with MedSolutions before the Justice Department, which opted not to challenge the deal.
SCL attorneys represented News America Marketing in its successful acquisition of Heritage Media.