Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (New York)

Karen M. Lent

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (New York)
Partner

Karen Lent is a partner at Skadden in New York. She represents a wide variety of clients in antitrust, sports and other complex litigation matters at both the trial and appellate court levels. Ms. Lent also provides general antitrust counseling. She was selected for inclusion in Sports Business Journal’s “Forty Under Forty” 2013 list. In the antitrust litigation area, Ms. Lent has handled a number of litigations involving price-fixing, group boycotts, monopolization, other restraints of trade and class actions. In the area of general antitrust counseling, Ms. Lent advises numerous clients on compliance with basic antitrust statutes, including issues relating to competitor collaborations, unilateral conduct and distribution. She also presents antitrust compliance programs. Ms. Lent actively works on pro bono matters, and received the Legal Aid Society Pro Bono Publico Award in 2009 and 2011 for her successful representation of a disabled senior citizen whose landlord illegally overcharged her monthly rent for several years.

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Articles

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Karen M. Lent, Kenneth Schwartz The US District Court for the District of Denver acquits five executives in the chicken rearing industry in a price fixing and bid rigging cartel case (Jayson Jeffrey Penn / Roger Born Austin / William Wade Lovette / Mikell Reeve Fries / Scott James Brady)

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On July 7, 2022, a federal jury in Denver acquitted five executives who faced criminal charges for conspiring to fix prices in the chicken industry. The not-guilty verdict, which acquitted current and former executives of top chicken producers Pilgrim’s Pride and Claxton Poultry Farms, provides (...)

Karen M. Lent, Kenneth Schwartz The US FTC and DoJ announce a joint public inquiry related to the federal merger guidelines with the goal of strengthening enforcement against illegal mergers

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On Jan. 18, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division announced a joint public inquiry related to the federal merger guidelines, with the goal of “strengthening enforcement against illegal mergers.” Members of the public are encouraged to (...)

Steven C. Sunshine, Karen M. Lent, Matthew Martino, Julia K. York The US District Court for the District of Columbia grants motions to dismiss two parallel antitrust complaints filed by the FTC and a group of State AGs against a social media company for monopolization, with the FTC being allowed to file an amended complaint in 30 days (Facebook)

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On June 28, 2021, Judge James E. Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted Facebook’s motions to dismiss two parallel antitrust complaints filed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and a group of state enforcers. The complaints accused Facebook of illegally (...)

Kenneth Schwartz, Karen M. Lent The US DoJ releases merger remedies manual

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On Sept. 3, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) released the Merger Remedies Manual (the manual), which provides guidance on how the agency currently intends to approach the structure and implementation of remedies in merger cases. See Antitrust Div., U. S. Department of (...)

Justine M. Haimi, David P. Wales, Karen M. Lent The US State of Delaware Chancery Court issues an opinion in litigation between two health-insurance giants over a failed merger and confirms that neither is entitled to damages (Anthem / Cigna)

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On August 31, 2020, the Delaware Chancery Court issued an opinion in litigation between Anthem and Cigna related to the contract in their terminated merger. In its sprawling 306-page opinion, the court detailed a “corporate soap opera” in which the parties’ “battle for power spanned multiple acts.” (...)

Karen M. Lent, Giorgio Motta, Tara L. Reinhart, Clifford H. Aronson, Steven C. Sunshine, David P. Wales The US DoJ publishes a statement cautioning that the antitrust laws remain in effect and agreements among competitors that set commercial terms may be illegal

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Antitrust-Related Considerations Collaborations With Competitors Companies seeking to collaborate with competitors in response to the COVID-19 crisis must keep in mind, as the Department of Justice has recently cautioned, that the antitrust laws remain in effect, and agreements among (...)

Karen M. Lent, Kenneth Schwartz The US DoJ brings for the first time a merger enforcement action using arbitration and forces the divestiture of aluminium production in North America (Novelis / Aleris)

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DOJ Merger Enforcement Arbitration: A Sign of Things To Come?* On March 2020, the Antitrust Division Of the Department Of Justice successfully secured the divestiture by Novelis of Aleris Corporation’s North American aluminum production facilities in U.S. v. Novelis et al. with an unorthodox (...)

Boris Bershteyn, Karen M. Lent, Matthew Martino The US Supreme Court holds that consumers are direct purchasers of apps and consequently have standing to sue an app store owner for monopolisation and high prices (Apple / Pepper)

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On May 13, 2019, in a 5-4 decision in Apple Inc. v. Pepper, the U.S. Supreme Court held that consumers of iPhone apps are direct purchasers of Apple and therefore have standing to sue the company for alleged monopolization of the aftermarket for iPhone apps in violation of Section 2 of the (...)

Karen M. Lent, Mark D. Young The US District Court in the Southern District of New York dismisses a class action lawsuit alleging a large number of entities and individuals in a cartel case (Sea brent crude oil)

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The U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York recently dismissed a class action lawsuit alleging, among other claims, that a large number of entities and individuals in the market for producing, refining and trading Brent crude oil (together, Defendants) manipulated the prices of (...)

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