Antitrust Litigation
Antitrust litigation confronts the most consequential disputes over how markets compete. These cases turn on monopolization and exclusionary conduct claims, on price-fixing and cartel follow-on suits, and on tying and refusal-to-deal challenges - claims that expose companies to triple damages under the Sherman and Clayton Acts and parallel state antitrust law. Brewer litigates both sides of these fights: defending companies accused of anticompetitive conduct and pursuing recovery for businesses injured by it. The Firm steps in where the stakes are exceptionally high - where triple damages and joint and several liability can turn a single claim existential, and where the outcome will shape a company's competitive position for years.
Founded in 1984 and operating from Dallas and New York, Brewer represents a client base that ranges from entrepreneurs to Fortune 500 corporations and major nonprofits. The Firm tries these disputes in federal courts nationwide, in state courts, and in arbitration, marshaling the full range of remedies and defenses that antitrust demands - from damages and injunctions to hard-fought market-definition and antitrust-injury challenges. Whether the client seeks recovery or resists a claim, the Firm's advocacy is principled, relentless, and unwavering, calibrated for the sophisticated adversary and the high-stakes forum.
Antitrust cases are decided by economic evidence, and Brewer built its model around that reality. The Firm's in-house consulting group of economists, accountants, and investment banking professionals works alongside its trial lawyers on market definition and damages models, translating complex market behavior into evidence a fact-finder can weigh. Investigative professionals surface the communications and data trails that reveal concerted conduct, and public relations professionals manage the intense scrutiny that follows these cases. This integrated, cutting-edge approach - paired with a disciplined, litigation-only focus - equips the Firm to deliver full-spectrum advocacy and to prevail on the questions that ultimately decide antitrust outcomes.
Featured Trial Victory
In Raytheon Company v. FLIR Systems, Brewer defended FLIR's subsidiary Indigo Systems - a rising competitor - against an industry giant's claims of misappropriating 31 alleged trade secrets, with more than $650 million sought. After a 17-day trial, the jury unanimously ruled for FLIR, and the verdict was affirmed on appeal. Though a trade secrets matter rather than an antitrust case, it stands as the Firm's flagship trial win: proof of its ability to defend a smaller, rising competitor against a dominant incumbent and prevail before a jury.
Antitrust litigation is one dimension of the Firm's broader Commercial Litigation practice.