“While it is fashionable today to call for mergers and alliances in the name of globalization and the creation of national champions, these often undermine the creation of competitive advantage. Real national competitiveness requires governments to disallow mergers, acquisitions, and alliances that involve industry leaders.”
Professor Michael E. Porter | Harvard Business School | 1990
Many companies and attorneys advising businesses think of antitrust law from the perspective of “what not to do” in business.
Don’t break the rules. Don’t use your market power or anti-competitive schemes to crush competitors, dominate a market, and squelch anyone who threatens your hold on purchasers and distributors. Antitrust law is also considered by many to be what big companies and government enforcement agencies use – backed by enormous resources and armies of lawyers – to break up illegal monopolies.
We encourage market participants to consider another view.
Antitrust laws can be a powerful weapon to weaken aggressively dominant players.
Download our paper — Why We Fight: The Strategic Value of Antitrust Litigation When Battling Dominant Competitors — which is designed to present a different view of antitrust litigation, that is, how it might be useful in slashing your way through a competitive landscape dominated by powerful and aggressive players.