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Covington’s global competition law practice draws on the firm’s unmatched expertise across a range of disciplines, such as intellectual property, privacy and consumer protection, corporate and transactional law, and government and regulatory affairs. Our lawyers also have a deep understanding of the markets in which our media and technology clients compete – from more established industries like broadcasting, to evolving sectors like mobile and e-commerce, to cutting-edge issues in areas like social media and cloud computing.
Working seamlessly across our offices around the world, we are able to help our media and technology clients achieve creative and cost-effective solutions to the challenges they face in a rapidly-changing legal, regulatory, and business environment.
Representative Matters
- Representation of Facebook, Inc. in several transactions, including its acquisition of Instagram.
- Representation of Microsoft Corp. in its $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype Communications S.à.r.l. and in connection with its $4.5 billion acquisition of certain Nortel patents.
- Representation of Expedia in In re On-Line Travel Company (OTC)/Hotel Booking Antitrust Litigation.
- Representation of Qualcomm in relation to a European Commission investigation into its licensing practices.
- Representing Microsoft, Expedia and TripAdvisor in the connection with competition law investigations into conduct by Google.
- Representing Microsoft in their European complaints regarding the abusive behavior of InterDigital and Motorola Mobility, respectively, in connection with their licensing of standards essential patents.
- Counseling numerous media and communications clients regarding collaborations, including cable channel ventures; joint ventures for video programming and content; and satellite, wireless/mobile, and broadcast joint ventures.
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