The 'highly experienced' team at Linklaters LLP draws on its expertise in sectors like pharmaceuticals, healthcare, and financial services to guide clients through both domestic and international cartel investigations, along with related civil matters, including class actions and merger clearance. Practice head Douglas Tween, who is praised as a 'star of the cartel bar', is noted for his expertise in crisis management, internal investigations, and defending clients in regulatory and criminal cases. John Eichlin excels at navigating the intersection of consumer protection regulations and antitrust enforcement. All mentioned lawyers are based in New York.
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‘Linklaters has a deep cartel team that is capable of handling the full range of cartel mandates, from companies to individuals, and investigations to trial.’
‘Doug Tween is and has long been a star of the cartel bar.’
‘Linklaters integrated worldwide platform provides great value to its clients.’
‘Doug Tween possess a wealth of experience in all facets of cartel work: advising/counseling, investigations, and litigations.'
- 'Doug Tween possesses credibility with the antitrust agencies and gets jaw-dropping results for his clients.’
‘Douglas Tween is exceptional. He is brilliant, knowledgeable and always available.’
‘Highly experienced with in-depth knowledge of DOJ's practices, policies and key people.’
‘Doug Tween is one the most experienced attorneys in the cartel space with long-time DOJ and private practice experience. He's also extremely easy to work with and a great commmunicator.’
Key clients
- Kelkoo Group
- McKesson
- NatWest Group Plc
- Nestlé Nespresso
- Perfetti Van Melle
- Société Générale and SG Americas Securities
- Strides Pharma
- Walmart
Work highlights
Prepared and filed applications pursuant to 28 U.S. Code § 1782 against Google and Alphabet in aid of foreign proceedings for Kelkoo Group’s subsidiaries, Whitewater Capital Limited and LeGuide.com SAS.
Defending generic pharma manufacturer Strides in the In Re: Generic Pharmaceuticals Pricing Antitrust Litigation in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Representing the NatWest entities in connection with a putative class action brought in the District of New Mexico alleging a 15-year conspiracy among NatWest, nine other major bank group liquidity providers, as well as non-dealer defendants including ISDA, Creditex, and Markit, to manipulate the credit default swap (“CDS”) auction price used to value all CDS contracts market-wide at settlement.
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Practice head
Douglas Tween
Other key lawyers
John Eichlin