Protect your organization from costly legal risks by mastering antitrust regulations, fair competition standards, and safe practices for competitor and trade association interactions.
Antitrust risk rarely appears with advance warning. More often, it emerges through ordinary business activity—industry meetings, information sharing, pricing practices, distribution arrangements, joint ventures, or participation in trade associations and standard-setting bodies. For lawyers advising businesses, the challenge is not simply understanding the law in theory, but identifying where routine commercial conduct can create competition law exposure in practice.
This session examines antitrust compliance from a practical counselling perspective, focusing on how attorneys help businesses and trade associations recognise, assess, and manage competition law risk without undermining legitimate commercial objectives. It explores how antitrust principles are applied in real business settings and how effective compliance frameworks are structured across industries where collaboration and competition frequently intersect.
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Owner | Richard Wolfram, Esq.
Richard Wolfram is an independent U.S. lawyer based in New York City. His practice, launched in 2005, focuses on antitrust counseling and litigation on behalf of corporations, professional organizations and public advocacy entities. Drawing on his 20+ years of experience in antitrust and more than 29 years in commercial litigation, Mr. Wolfram focuses on helping each client achieve its objectives through effective, cost-efficient counseling and/or litigation. The constructive use of antitrust to achieve these ends often requires ’problem solving’ — taking apart a client’s concrete issues, identifying the antitrust component and using this legal tool to the client’s advantage, whether as a plaintiff, defendant, amicus (friend of the court) or interested observer. Mr. Wolfram has published widely on a number of antitrust topics in U.S. and foreign publications since 1995 and has guest-lectured and spoken at conferences on antitrust. The range and depth of his writing and speaking are an important facet of his ability to deliver results for his clients. He has practiced predominantly in antitrust since 1995, including nine years at Clifford Chance/Rogers & Wells in New York City. From 1985 to 1995, Mr. Wolfram worked as an associate in commercial litigation at several large and medium-sized international firms in New York. Mr. Wolfram served on the Editorial Board of the Antitrust Law Journal (ABA) (as Assistant Editor and then Associate Editor) from 2000 to 2005. He is a member of the Antitrust Section of the ABA and the Standards and Open Source Committee of the American Intellectual Property Lawyers Association.
