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Understanding Antitrust Price Fixing: Video Leadership Seminar with Edward Geltman of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP
ExecSense, Aug 2007, Minutes: 40
The goal of this Video Leadership Seminar is to provide executives and lawyers with essential information about price fixing and the implications of price fixing in the marketplace. The DVD is viewable on any computer or iPod (that supports video) and features 40 minutes of live video with Edward A. Geltman of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP, sharing his knowledge and experience of dealing with price fixing cases. The Video Leadership Seminar provides specific resources such as the most important laws, strategies to avoid all implication, consequences and what is considered to be price fixing.
Topics covered in the Video Leadership Seminar include:
- The consequences of price fixing
- The most likely results of price fixing in the US and Internationally
- Recent changes of Vertical Price Fixing: between non-competitors
- What constitutes Price Fixing
- Limited defense; very little leniency
- International Authority, Investigation and Enforcement
- Creating Compliance Programs for employee on how to avoid price fixing
Samples of the types of questions answered in the Video Leadership Seminar include:
- What is the basic intent of the antitrust price fixing law?
- How much do companies and executives need to know about price fixing?
- What are the consequences of breaking the antitrust price fixing laws?
- What are the important cases being tried today? What are the key elements of the claims?
- What sources are most helpful when researching price fixing rules?
- How can the firm include the antitrust analysis in routine business practices?
- What proactive steps can be taken with distributors and retailers to further protect the company?
- What records and documents are kept to support the firms compliance?
- What risk management practices are geared at this issue?
- What competitive situations usually bump up against the price fixing laws?
- How well are foreign firms interpreting and adhering to the antitrust laws?
- How severe is price fixing in relationship to other antitrust rules?
- What agencies are responsible for enforcing the rules?
About the Author
Edward A. Geltman has served clients as an expert in antitrust and consumer protection legal matters for more than 30 years. He began his career as a trial lawyer with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Bureau of Competition. Since joining Squire Sanders in 1973, Mr. Geltman has successfully defended clients in investigations and enforcement actions brought by the FTC and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) relating to mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, pricing, marketing practices and advertising. Mr. Geltman has represented and counseled clients in connection with substantial antitrust controversies in a wide range of industries, including the steel, glass, air conditioning and jet engine industries, as well as a broad range of health care providers. He has substantial experience in defending companies and corporate executives in antitrust criminal and civil investigations, and representing clients in private antitrust treble damage and class action proceedings. In addition, Mr. Geltman counsels and represents clients on a full range of antitrust and consumer protection issues, including acquisitions, mergers and joint ventures, deceptive advertising, marketing, distribution and pricing issues. He has successfully guided clients through the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) filing and second request process and utilized his knowledge of the FTC and DOJ to structure and secure approval of proposed acquisitions, mergers and joint ventures. He is a member of the America Bar Association’s Antitrust Section, including its Health Care, Corporate Counseling and Internet and E-Commerce Committees, and the District of Columbia Bar’s Antitrust and Trade Regulation Committee.
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