ABOUT
Barbara’s practice covers the full range of antitrust and competition matters. She routinely handles antitrust litigation, conduct and merger investigations, and counseling, as well as distribution disputes and arrangements, for domestic and international companies.
Her antitrust litigation experience includes a wide range of antitrust claims, such as class action and individual plaintiff actions. Additionally, this experience includes actions challenging agreements among competitors such as price fixing, customer allocation, output restraints, and other similar horizontal agreements, as well as monopolization and claims challenging exclusionary conduct or agreements. She has also defended clients facing price discrimination, overlapping director, and numerous state statutory and common law unfair competition claims.
She has extensive experience responding to government investigations of alleged cartel activity, including price-fixing and market allocation. Most recently, she represented a successful applicant under the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Lenience Program, as well as other nonpublic criminal investigations.
Barbara advises clients on acquisitions and joint venture transactions before the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice, state attorneys general, and international regulatory agencies. She is also experienced in non-merger civil and criminal antitrust investigations before the enforcement agencies, and defends against antitrust class actions and individual claims. Her counseling practice also involves helping international and domestic companies to minimize or avoid antitrust liability, and to implement effective compliance programs.
Barbara speaks regularly and has authored numerous articles and book chapters on competition-related issues, and serves on the editorial board of the American Bar Association’s Premerger Coordination: The Emerging Law of Gun Jumping and Information Exchange (2nd ed.). She is an author of the 2016 edition of Model Jury Instructions in Civil Antitrust Cases. She is immediate past chair of the American Bar Association Business Law Section Antitrust Committee.
Barbara is active in pro bono and public service work, and has received numerous awards recognizing her contributions, including Community Legal Service, Inc.’s Champion of Justice and Equal Justice Awards in 2006 and 2002, respectively, and the Philadelphia Bar Association’s First Union Fidelity Award in 2002. She serves on the board of the Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site and on several boards of organizations that seek to provide income-eligible individuals equal access to the legal system. For more than 10 years, she served on the Committee of Seventy, a leading civic reform organization in Philadelphia.
