Holland & Knight - Antitrust Mergers & Acquisitions

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ANTITRUST MERGERS

AND ACQUISITIONS

www.hklaw.com

Holland & Knight's Antitrust Team is a multi-office, multidimensional group with experience and capabilities to handle antitrust matters of any nature. The team comprises attorneys with decades of experience at antitrust enforcement agencies, successful litigators of bet-thecompany cases and proven stewards of complex mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions.

EXAMPLES OF SERVICES OFFERED

ƒ Providing antitrust training and counseling for employees

ƒ Evaluating M&A activities for potential competition issues

ƒ Handling Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) premerger notification filings

ƒ Interacting with federal and state enforcement agencies conducting antitrust investigations

ƒ Assisting in responding to subpoenas from federal and state enforcement agencies

ƒ Offering experienced litigation support

ƒ Litigating high-stakes antitrust class action cases

M&A-RELATED CAPABILITIES

ƒ Drawing on decades of federal and state enforcement experience to assess risks with proposed transactions and advise on how to mitigate those risks

ƒ Advising on HSR requirements and preparing filings

ƒ Counseling on premerger pitfalls, including sanitizing sell-side materials, advising on clean-team structures and avoiding gun-jumping concerns

ƒ Engaging with expert economists to develop economic cases in support of transactions likely to meet government opposition

ƒ Guiding clients through the government merger review process, including Second Request compliance and advocacy to antitrust agencies

CONTACT US

John Dierking Partner | Orlando +1.407.244.5215 john.dierking@hklaw.com

Kenneth Racowski Partner | Philadelphia +1.215.252.9580 kenneth.racowski@hklaw.com

RECENT M&A-RELATED ENGAGEMENTS

ƒ Guided a municipal casting company through Second Request compliance and to successful resolution with agency

ƒ Successfully advocated on behalf of a provider of cargo services to air carriers to ensure successful completion of a sale to its principal competitor

ƒ Engaged with major hospital systems in preparing groundwork for advocacy in support of competitor acquisition

Bill Katz Partner | Dallas +1.214.969.1330 william.katz@hklaw.com

Timothy Ray Partner | Chicago +1.312.928.6042 timothy.ray@hklaw.com

David Kully Partner | Washington, D.C. +1.202.469.5415 david.kully@hklaw.com

Caitlin Saladrigas Partner | West Palm Beach +1.561.650.8349 caitlin.saladrigas@hklaw.com

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