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Farmer Brownstein Jaeger Goldstein Klein & Siegel LLP’s seasoned trial, government, and regulatory lawyers have spent decades helping their clients solve their most difficult problems. We work closely with our clients to solve litigation, government investigations, and regulatory issues in the most intelligent and cost-effective way. Our team approach makes our diverse set of backgrounds and experiences available, as needed, to every assignment. We have a track record of success in large international cases and investigations and in smaller business disputes and pre-litigation issues. We aggressively look to resolve matters as quickly and as efficiently as possible to fulfill our client’s business or personal objectives.

Our firm combines the experience of attorneys who have worked for the government, the finest international law firms, and a Fortune 500 company. We have decades of experience in complex business litigation, government regulatory and criminal matters, and antitrust and securities cases and disputes, as well as outside independent investigations of corporate governance and malfeasance concerns. We represent clients in federal and state courts across the country, in arbitrations, before state and federal regulatory agencies, and in U.S. and international government investigations. We have expertise in all phases of criminal and civil trial and litigation practice, as well as regulatory proceedings, including trials, arbitrations, mediations and appeals.

  • Antitrust
  • Complex Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution
  • Corporate/Partnership Governance Disputes, Fiduciary Duty and Business Tort Litigation
  • Regulatory
  • Securities Litigation, Enforcement and Professional Liability
  • White-Collar Criminal

Antitrust

Criminal Antitrust

We bring prosecution experience and perspective to defend companies and individuals facing criminal investigations and indictments brought by the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division (DOJ). Mr. Farmer and Mr. Siegel are former senior DOJ officials with extensive knowledge of and experience with DOJ criminal antitrust and cartel investigative strategies, policies, and practices. The breadth and depth of our criminal experience has enabled the firm to successfully defend clients in high-stakes domestic and international price-fixing investigations of suspected cartel involvement in which individuals face potential incarceration and companies face possible criminal fines in the hundreds of millions of dollars. We have extensive experience with the DOJ’s leniency program, and we have strong reputations and credibility with the DOJ.

Civil Antitrust Litigation

We have extensive experience defending clients against civil antitrust claims brought as class actions or by individuals in federal and state courts. Our lawyers have played leading roles in high-stakes price-fixing, monopolization, tying, and group-boycott cases alleging billions of dollars of damages, and we have represented companies in multidistrict, class action, and opt-out cases. Our experience cuts across a broad range of industries including, for example, electronic devices and components, chemicals, agriculture, entertainment, health care, pharmaceuticals, clothing, payment cards, credit reports/identity theft, motor oil, and automotive parts. Our criminal antitrust expertise is invaluable in enabling us to position our clients for the best possible results in civil litigation. We have trial experience in proceedings brought by the Antitrust Division alleging price fixing and bid rigging violations as well as civil proceeding challenging corporate mergers and acquisitions.

Antitrust Compliance and Counseling

We have substantial experience advising global and domestic companies across multiple industries in designing and implementing effective antitrust compliance programs that are consistent with the U.S. Department of Justice compliance credit policy. We routinely provide antitrust advice and counseling services to help clients run their businesses successfully, avoiding the pitfalls of our complex antitrust laws. And we help clients design distribution and sales systems involving complex supply chains, and navigating potential antitrust issues in the context of horizontal and vertical relationships and the intersection of antitrust and intellectual property rights. We also advise clients on the intersection between antitrust and regulatory schemes in the context of dominant firm and multi-firm conduct.

Complex Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution

We represent companies and individuals in a wide range of complex business disputes through all phases of litigation and appeals in federal and state courts, as well as in arbitrations and mediations. We work closely with each client, whether as a plaintiff or defendant, to develop strategies to resolve disputes in a cost-effective manner with minimal disruption to ongoing business operations. We also defend companies in class actions, including in multi-district litigation. We have represented clients in many industries involving claims relating to partnerships, contracts and business torts, California’s Unfair Competition Law, fraud, fiduciary duties, corporate governance issue, license agreements, real estate disputes, fair market rent determinations, business valuations, patent pools, misappropriation of trade secrets, and tax and accounting issues.

Corporate/Partnership Governance Disputes, Fiduciary Duty and Business Tort Litigation

We have extensive experience prosecuting and defending actions between stakeholders in private or closely held companies. Our lawyers have successfully guided clients through numerous cases involving the fiduciary and contractual duties owed by shareholders and partners to each other and to the company, business torts, ownership and control issues and business valuations.

Regulatory

We have experience with high-stakes regulatory litigation before both the California Public Utilities Commission and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and related federal court litigation and appeals to the federal courts of appeal. Our experience before state and federal commissions encompasses all phases of proceedings, including discovery, motions, working with expert economic and technical witnesses, hearings, post-hearing briefing, oral argument, meeting with commission staff, and negotiating multi-party settlements. We also have experience guiding utilities and other regulated entities through rulemakings and investigations, and advising clients on compliance with commission orders and regulations. In addition, we have experience advising clients on the impact of proposed federal and state regulations and laws.

Securities Litigation, Enforcement and Professional Liability

We represent firms and individuals in securities related class actions and derivative litigation and in connection with investigations and SEC enforcement proceedings. Our lawyers have conducted internal investigations for boards of directors and special committees. In addition, we have broad experience representing accounting firms and individuals in all manner of cases, from multi-jurisdictional securities class actions to client-related disputes and SEC and other regulatory matters.

White-Collar Criminal

Our lawyers represent individuals and companies in white-collar criminal investigations and trials. Before entering private practice, both Mr. Farmer and Mr. Siegel were prosecutors and senior managers for the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division (DOJ). For many years, they supervised DOJ’s grand jury investigations and high-profile criminal litigation. In addition, Mr. Farmer served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in San Francisco and was assigned to handle complex conspiracy criminal cases involving securities, business fraud and tax evasion.

We have led internal investigations on behalf of boards of directors and advised and represented executives in connection with grand jury investigations and in other matters having potential criminal implications. Our firm strives to head off any government prosecution or litigation in the first place, but if an acceptable disposition cannot be achieved, we do not hesitate to pursue a vigorous defense on behalf of our clients at trial.

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