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Eric Enson and Ann Rives Crowell & Moring LLP
Crowell & Moring LLP has an antitrust and competition practice that helps companies navigate these matters around the world. With an unprecedented focus on anticompetitive be - haviour, regulators and governments are scru - tinising the market impacts of consolidation, technology and changing business models. As aggressive enforcement becomes a priority, industry leaders rely on Crowell for strategies that let them innovate and compete in global markets. A destination practice with over 80 antitrust practitioners, the firm has the skill and
scale to handle matters of any size, anywhere. The business interests of the firm’s clients fre - quently demand multi-jurisdictional antitrust and competition strategies. By maintaining close relationships with the top antitrust firms and practitioners around the world, Crowell can select and co-ordinate the best possible coun - sel to help solve clients’ cross-jurisdictional problems as they arise. In recent years the firm has assisted clients in mergers, acquisitions, in - vestigations, litigation and arbitration in over 80 jurisdictions.
Authors
Eric Enson is recognised as a leading competition lawyer, renowned for his extensive antitrust litigation and counselling experience. Eric represents clients in all manner
Ann Rives is a counsel in Crowell & Moring’s Washington, DC office. Ann’s practice focuses on antitrust counselling, multi-district litigation, and criminal and civil investigations.
of antitrust claims, such as complex international cartel investigations and antitrust class actions, including major jury trials. Eric’s experience extends to matters involving claims of monopolisation and other types of unilateral conduct. He has decades of experience responding to Department of Justice investigations of alleged collusion and follow- on civil litigation. His practice focuses heavily on defending clients against claims of price- fixing in the computer components, technology, capacitors, optical disk drive, auto parts, semiconductors and packaged ice industries, as well as in a number of non-public criminal proceedings.
Ann counsels on a wide range of antitrust issues, including advice related to distribution and supply chain channels, trade associations and antitrust compliance issues. Her work also includes representing Fortune 500 companies as plaintiffs in recovery actions when they have been victims of price-fixing cartels.
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