
When companies collude, consumers, workers, and small businesses pay the price.
We investigate and litigate issues that protect consumers, workers, and small businesses from anticompetitive business conduct.
Antitrust laws generally forbid agreements between competitors to reduce competition. Less competition usually means higher prices for consumers and lower wages for workers.
Unlawful arrangements can take many forms, like these.
Price-fixing & Wage-fixing. Prices and wages are supposed to be set by market supply and demand—not secret handshakes or gentleman’s agreements. Prohibited price-fixing can include agreements about pricing formulas, discounts, and other terms and conditions, or to limit supply or price advertisements.
Market allocation . Competitors aren’t allowed to agree to stay out of each other’s way—whether that’s by not soliciting one another’s customers, or dividing up territories or business lines.
No-poach agreements. Employers aren’t allowed to agree not to compete for workers. That includes no-poach, no-hire, and non-solicitation agreements between competitors.