Allison A. Davis

Allison A. Davis provides antitrust counseling, merger and acquisition and regulatory advice and has deep experience in multidistrict price fixing litigation. She advises clients in joint ventures, acquisitions, trade associations, distribution counseling and other compliance matters. She provides premerger counseling, Hart-Scott-Rodino filings as well as 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, and jury trials, involving antitrust, contract disputes, food labeling, and related matters. She also advises clients with regard to national security issues involved in transactions, including Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) review.

Practice Highlights

• Provide ongoing defense of price fixing claims for major Japanese electronics company
• Provides antitrust counseling advice to major Japanese tire manufacturers
• Provides 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 HSR and wireless acquisition in U.S. and the EU
• Provide ongoing antitrust transactional advice to various payments clients and related financial institutions
• Provide advice, compliance, and filing requirements for inbound investments under CFIUS (National Security Review)
• Provide ongoing advice to farmer-owned cooperatives on Capper-Volstead (antitrust exemption for farmer-owned cooperatives) issues
• Provided merger counseling to several major grocery chains
• Provided antitrust counseling and regulatory advice to major independent power producer for over ten years
• Provided HSR and antitrust counseling for large merger of Japanese seafood companies
• Successfully defended several medical groups against FTC allegations of antitrust violations
• Provided HSR and related counseling for many major hospital mergers
• Successfully represented municipal utilities in litigation adverse to investor-owned utilities
• Provided advice and counseling to an Australian firm looking for credits for carbon emission reductions in China