Allison A. Davis has both a litigation and counseling practice. She advises clients in many areas of antitrust law, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, agreements and the defense of Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Department of Justice investigations. Allison also represents large U.S. and international corporate clients in complex commercial litigation, including federal class actions, jury trials involving private antitrust, contract disputes, insurance coverage and related matters.
As a member of the firm's energy practice group, her industry focus is on independent power producers and renewable energy. In 2006 Allison became co-chair of the firm's climate change group, bringing her energy and mining background, as well as her regulatory expertise, to assist clients in navigating this emerging area of law.
Practice Highlights:
- Provided antitrust counseling to distribution companies, including major U.S. retailers as well as EU companies looking to do business in the U.S.
- Provided international antitrust counseling for major wireless acquisition in U.S. and the EU
- Provided antitrust counseling and regulatory advice to major independent power producer for over ten years
- Successfully defended several medical groups against FTC allegations of antitrust violations
- Successfully represented municipal utilities in litigation adverse to investor-owned utilities
- Provided litigation advice to start up tech companies regarding disgruntled shareholder suits, company management issues and “cram downs”
- Defended third party subpoenas for Chevron International, Stanford University, SaveMart Supermarkets and others
- Successfully defended Relex, Inc., a Russian technology company, in an intracompany dispute with a U.S. affiliate
- Provided advice and counseling to an Australian firm looking for credits for carbon emission reductions in China
- Provided U.S. opinion in a financing for Vmoto Ltd, located in Perth, Australia