Businesses do not always do the right thing. They can make earnest mistakes that cause serious problems for other businesses or consumers, such as Federal or California Antitrust Law violations, breach of contract, breach of warranty, negligent misrepresentation, false advertising, unfair competition, or lemon law violations. Sometimes, such actions by a company are intentional and malicious, even fraudulent or monopolistic. Our Consumer Law and Antitrust Law Attorney will aggressively file and defend unfair competition, consumer fraud, and related Antitrust lawsuits in the various California state and Federal courts in San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, Marin County, and Monterey, California. Just as importantly, we are capable of resolving such Antitrust and Consumer Law disputes as amicably and affordably as possible to prevent serious consumer and competitor complaints from turning into expensive courtroom battles.
Our San Francisco Bay Area Antirust Law Attorney, Mr. Aly Ebrahimzadeh, Esq., offers exacting and cost-effective General Counsel legal expertise for San Francisco Bay Area businesses to guide them every step of the way to prevent and minimize litigation wherever possible, and offers full scope representation in mergers and acquisitions and DOJ and FTC disclosures to comport with Federal Antitrust Law, such as the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act. Knowing full well that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, Mr. Ebrahimzadeh drafts contracts, advises clients on business practices, and navigates businesses through the turbulent waters of cutting-edge Consumer Law and Antitrust Law. When litigation is inevitable, however, Mr. Ebrahimzadeh is a fierce and savvy opponent, fighting intelligently for our clients, be they Plaintiffs or Defendants.
The California Consumer Legal Remedies Act (CLRA), the California Unfair Competition Law (Business and Professions Code sections 17200 et seq.) , and various laws concerned with California Unfair and Deceptive Business Practices serve to protect businesses and consumers from false advertising, business fraud, illegal monopolies, and other unlawful, misleading, and deceptive business practices. Such complaints form the basis of an ever-growing number of civil lawsuits in the State of California, and it is wise to take such matters very seriously. While our Silicon Valley Consumer Law Attorney is poised to litigate such matters with grace, intensity, and efficiency, along with a hand selected network of expert witnesses fighting on your behalf, we often recommend to our business clients to employ us to review your company’s business practices to help prevent costly litigation and to try to ensure that the California state and Federal legal rights of your clients and competitors are not violated by your actions and efforts to heighten your corporate profile.
Federal Antitrust laws such as the Sherman Act and the Clayton Act, as well as the California Cartwright Act, have legislated that certain types of monopolistic business practices may be both civil violations and crimes. For example, a natural monopoly business may be legal if it is the only or great majority stakeholder in a particular industry, unless it performs various illegal business practices to create and maintain its position as a monopoly. Under the California Cartwright Act, such illegal monopolistic business practices include the formation of contracts, conspiracies and collusion related to price fixing, preventing competition, restricting trade, and limiting production of a particular good or commodity. The Sherman Act, upon which the Cartwright Act was based, makes illegal the formation of any contracts which create restraints on trade and which affect interstate commerce. Also, the Sherman Act makes it illegal for any natural monopolies to create or maintain such monopolistic power by way of various methods of price fixing, preventing competition, restricting trade, and limiting production of a particular good or commodity. A natural and legal monopoly, however, is one whose existence and growth is the natural result of superior business acumen, a superior product, or a historic accident. The Clayton Antitrust Act expands upon the Sherman Act by also making illegal actions that tend to create or maintain a monopoly, such as price discrimination by sellers acting against different purchasers, exclusive dealing agreements, tying arrangements, and mergers and acquisitions that substantially reduce free competition in the market. The Robinson-Patman Act also amends the Sherman Act by making it illegal for monopoly manufacturers to offer different prices for the same or similar commodities, goods, or products to different distributors in a discriminatory fashion when the sales of such commodities are contemporaneous, involve interstate commerce, and have the aim of creating or furthering the manufacturer’s monopoly power. The Federal Trade Commission Act, Section 5, provides the FTC additional authority to pursue companies or persons that violate any of the federal antitrust laws.
Finally, the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, created in part by Congressman Peter Rodino of New Jersey, a personal family friend of our Palo Alto Antitrust Attorney, Mr. Aly Ebrahimzadeh, Esq., concerns itself with two critical goals. In the words of Congressman Peter Rodino, the Hart-Scott-Rodino law “was intended to give the anti-trust agencies two things: critical information about a proposed merger and time to analyze that information and prepare a case, if necessary.” As a result of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, certain mergers and acquisitions that may create a potential monopoly must be reviewed and approved by the FTC and the Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division. Our San Francisco Bay Area Antitrust Attorney, Mr. Aly Ebrahimzadeh, Esq., offers exacting and intelligent legal expertise to companies who are required to make disclosures to the FTC and DOJ, and who may need to object to any governmental denials of their applications to merge or acquire another business.
We offer full-scope representation to companies and individuals in civil litigation involving Consumer Law and Antitrust Law in California’s state and Federal courts, including the Federal District Court for Northern California in San Francisco, the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, the California Supreme Court, and various California Superior Courts in and around San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, Hayward, Palo Alto, Redwood City, Napa, San Rafael, Santa Cruz, and Monterey, California.
Our Palo Alto Criminal Defense Attorney, Mr. Aly Ebrahimzadeh, also handles related San Francisco Bay Area White Collar Criminal Defense lawsuits related to Antitrust Law violations such as malicious and intentional price fixing, bid-rigging, horizontal market allocations, and other criminal restraints on trade, including related RICO conspiracy crimes.
We offer the most intelligent, aggressive, and affordable legal representation for Plaintiffs and Defendants in Consumer Law and Antitrust Law matters. We hand select expert witnesses, forensic specialists, economic analysts, certified professional accountants, and private investigators to help you have every advantage in your Consumer or Antitrust Lawsuit. Our commitment to ethics and the rule of law is demonstrated by our perseverence on behalf of our clients, our rigorous comportment with our professional responsibilities, and our resourcefulness and speed in handling Consumer and Antitrust Transactions, Arbitration, and Litigation.
Consumer & Antitrust Law Practice Areas:
- Breach of Insurance Contract, Bad Faith
- Breach of Warranty of Merchantability
- Breach of Warranty of Fitness for a Particular Purpose
- Consumer Legal Remedies Act, Consumer Protection
- Lemon Law
- False Advertising
- Fraud and Misrepresentation
- Unfair Business Practices
- Monopolies and Antitrust Law
- Outsourced General Counsel Representation
- Mergers and Acquisitions
Industries:
- Real Estate
- Construction
- Insurance
- Information Technology
- Agriculture
- Education
- Small Business Retail
- Food and Beverage
- Automotive and Motorcycle Repair
- Consumer Product Manufacturing
- Medical and Dentistry
- Legal
- Finance and Accounting
- Publishing
- Public Governance – Municipal and County
- Entertainment
