Achieving the Most Effective Outside Counsel and Client Relationship for Both Transactional Issues and Merger Reviews

Michael McFalls, Apr 29, 2013

Transactional work can provide outside antitrust counsel immense opportunities to create, cement, and expand relationships with in-house counsel. For IP-intensive businesses, antitrust counsel can provide a useful and often essential complement to the role that lead IP counsel often play as consigliore to a patentholder. For run-of-the-mill antitrust work associated with horizontal acquisitions, antitrust counsel can learn a significant amount about core businesses