Webinar Details:
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. ET
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Our webinar will discuss antitrust risks that can arise as companies grapple with whether and how to adjust their pricing to respond to tariffs being imposed around the world. The webinar is designed to give listeners an understanding of these potential risks, and best practices for companies to manage such risks and minimize scrutiny from antitrust regulators and potential litigants when developing their tariff responses. Our panelists will cover these key concepts:

  • The potential antitrust risks to consider when crafting a pricing response to tariffs, including for multinational companies doing business in the US.
  • Scrutiny businesses may face from antitrust regulators and private plaintiffs, and lessons learned in the wake of similar economic and pricing shocks in the past.
  • The legal framework for analyzing pricing decisions in response to tariff pressure under US antitrust law.
  • Practical guidance on what companies can do to minimize risk, such as:
    • Collective actions that may be allowed, such as political lobbying;
    • Ensuring and demonstrating independent business decisions; and
    • Compliance efforts.

CLE Credit:
Continuing Legal Education — This program is pending CLE credit in CA, CO, IL and NY. Credit hours are estimated and subject to each states approval and credit rounding rules. We will apply to have this program accredited in other jurisdictions upon request.

For questions about this event, please contact Octavia Hutson.

If you would like to register for this event, please click here.

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Photo of Stefan M. Meisner Stefan M. Meisner

Over the past two decades, when companies have faced difficult global cartel investigations, United States Department of Justice antitrust investigations, antitrust class actions, and complex antitrust cases at the intersection of antitrust and patent law, Stefan M. Meisner has guided clients through their

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Over the past two decades, when companies have faced difficult global cartel investigations, United States Department of Justice antitrust investigations, antitrust class actions, and complex antitrust cases at the intersection of antitrust and patent law, Stefan M. Meisner has guided clients through their most challenging legal issues. In all these situations, Stefan has assisted clients in developing clear strategies with practical steps to ensure clients achieve results consistent with their priorities.

Stefan serves clients in a variety of industries, including heavy manufacturing, health care, consumer products, defense and aerospace, high tech, semiconductors, hospitals, alcoholic beverages, steel, mining, and aggregates.

Stefan has extensive experience practicing before the DOJ and the Federal Trade Commission in a variety of criminal, civil, and merger investigations. In addition, he has managed matters before international agencies, such as the European Commission, the Canadian Competition Bureau, the South African Competition Tribunal, the Japan Fair Trade Commission, Brazil’s Administrative Council for Economic Defense, and others. Stefan has coordinated the global strategy for clients defending multijurisdictional cartel investigations.

Stefan has extensive experience defending clients in private civil litigation as well, representing them in multidistrict litigation in antitrust class action matters at trial and appellate courts throughout the United States. He also represents clients defending antitrust and competition cases brought by competitors and other individual plaintiffs.

Applying his understanding of clients’ business and legal priorities, Stefan also provides tailored compliance counseling and helps clients proactively address potential risk areas when designing comprehensive compliance programs.

To develop efficient and effective solutions for businesses facing issues with electronic discovery and the management of electronically stored information, Stefan advises clients on e-discovery issues in the litigation and regulatory arenas. He counsels clients on developing effective strategies for managing electronic records in light of evolving standards on the preservation and production of electronic documents and data under the U.S. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Stefan also has extensive experience with investigations that involve forensic examination of electronic media and data.

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Luke van Houwelingen is a litigator in Crowell & Moring’s Washington, D.C. office, where he practices in the Antitrust and Competition Group. Luke represents clients in transportation, health care, and other industries in antitrust and other complex civil litigation and arbitration.

Luke currently

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Luke van Houwelingen is a litigator in Crowell & Moring’s Washington, D.C. office, where he practices in the Antitrust and Competition Group. Luke represents clients in transportation, health care, and other industries in antitrust and other complex civil litigation and arbitration.

Luke currently represents clients in several major antitrust litigations, including a Class 1 railroad in defense of Sherman Act Section 1 multidistrict litigation alleging a conspiracy to fix fuel surcharges; a major U.S. airline defending Section 1 claims alleging a conspiracy to restrict capacity for domestic air travel; and a large global hospitality company in lawsuits by a putative consumer class and a downstream online travel agency alleging collusion to restrict online keyword search advertising.

Luke is also active in pro bono matters, with an emphasis on disability rights and special education litigation, and has been honored for his pro bono work with Crowell & Moring’s George Bailey pro bono award..

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Eric Fanchiang is a counsel in Crowell & Moring’s Orange County office and is a member of the firm’s Antitrust and Competition Group. His practice focuses primarily on antitrust litigation for both defendants and plaintiffs and on government investigations. He has experience across a broad range of industries, including technology, transportation, and digital media. Eric represents his clients on a wide range of antitrust issues, including standard setting, trade association policies, misuse of patents and trade secrets, and price fixing.

While in law school, Eric was a staff editor and a lead notes editor of the UC Irvine Law Review and a research assistant to Professor Kenneth Simons, where he researched issues related to the drafting of the Restatement of the Law Third, Torts: Intentional Torts to Persons.

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