Antitrust & Competition
Antitrust and competition actions present complex challenges where clarity, rigorous analysis, and legal insight are essential.
HKA’s global, multi-disciplinary team rapidly assembles the expertise needed to address allegations effectively and support your strategic objectives.
Antitrust & Competition specialists at your service
HKA provides independent, defensible analysis to support clients in navigating antitrust and competition disputes. We’ve addressed damages and market issues across a wide range of allegations, including:
- Below-cost pricing
- Monopolization
- Tying arrangements
- Unfair competition
- Restraint of trade
- Price fixing and bid rigging
Achieving clarity in these cases requires high-quality financial, economic, and market analysis – combined with a deep understanding of competitive frameworks and the ability to testify credibly.
Drawing on global resources, HKA assembles teams with the capabilities and experience needed to deliver independent, robust evidence to regulators and courts. Depending on your case’s requirements, our teams blend industry insight with specialists in valuation, complex damages, economic modelling and data analysis. We work across jurisdictions and in multiple languages to meet the demands of international matters.
Why HKA
With a broad range of experience addressing antitrust and competition matters around the world, HKA can deliver an experienced and qualified team to meet your needs across major industry sectors including:
- Consumer goods and services
- Commercial business industries
- Energy and renewables industries
- Entertainment and professional sports
- Financial services
- Insurance
- Manufacturing and industrial
- Technology, media and telecoms (TMT)
- Transportation
Our experts have provided evidence and testimony in hundreds of cases before high courts, federal courts, competition courts, the US Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and in judicial and parliamentary review proceedings across multiple jurisdictions.
In response to our clients’ needs, we have:
- Analyzed market data, sales trends, service revenues, costs, and other related issues
- Conducted pricing analyses for products sold below cost and compared prices of individually sold and bundled products
- Delivered assignments across commercial industries and many technology markets
- Addressed and analyzed damages issues in antitrust disputes
Notable Cases:
- Bulk Mail Claim Limited v. International Distribution Services Plc (formerly Royal Mail Plc) – Competition Appeal Tribunal, United Kingdom (Case No. 1639/7/7/24) – Collective proceedings application alleging abuse of dominance in the bulk mail delivery services market. The claim follows Ofcom’s 2018 finding that Royal Mail introduced discriminatory pricing to exclude competitor Whistl. The Tribunal certified the class action in March 2025, accepting the proposed methodology of Dr. Chris Williams to estimate overcharge using econometric and qualitative analysis.
How we can help you
HKA is a trusted, independent expert partner to businesses and regulatory agencies. Acting on behalf of both applicants and respondents, our experts deliver credible opinions grounded in rigorous forensic investigation and economic analysis.
Our experience spans a wide range of industries, jurisdictions, legal forums, and regulatory frameworks – including many high-profile antitrust and competition disputes. Examples include:
- Litigation for damages following a major European Commission decision on online search and shopping practices
- Investigations into abuse of market dominance
- Regulatory reviews of mergers and takeovers
- Calculating relevant turnover for fines
- Assessing lost profits due to misuse of confidential information
- Analyzing and assessing damages claims involving professional sports leagues and associations
HKA has extensive experience in merger control matters. Our experts have:
- Overseen compliance with undertakings
- Reported to competition authorities on divestments of standalone and integrated businesses and assets
- Supervised long-term behavioral remedies, including price caps, supply commitments, and contractual restrictions
While maintaining independence, our teams work closely with the Approved Independent Manager, the merged firm, and legal representatives to ensure efficient monitoring. We engage openly on potential issues and collaborate with competition authorities and merged firms to resolve challenges quickly and minimize delays.
HKA experts have overseen compliance with undertakings across North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. We have assessed the suitability of proposed purchasers and monitored:
- Divestitures of businesses and assets
- Pricing and licensing of intellectual property
- Behavioral remedies such as supply commitments and contractual restrictions
Acting on behalf of both sellers and buyers, our experts have served as monitoring trustees for undertakings given to competition authorities, including the European Commission and agencies across the Americas.
With a trusted track record across the Americas and around the world, HKA brings deep experience, independence, and integrity to every antitrust and competition engagement.
Whether supporting merger control, monitoring compliance, or providing expert testimony in complex disputes, our teams deliver clear, actionable insights that help clients navigate regulatory scrutiny, resolve challenges efficiently, and make confident decisions in high-stakes environments.
HKA is a trusted, independent expert partner to businesses and regulatory agencies. Acting on behalf of both applicants and respondents, our experts deliver credible opinions grounded in rigorous forensic investigation and economic analysis.
Our experience spans a wide range of industries, jurisdictions, legal forums, and regulatory frameworks – including many high-profile antitrust and competition disputes. Examples include:
- Litigation for damages following a major European Commission decision on online search and shopping practices
- Investigations into abuse of market dominance
- Regulatory reviews of mergers and takeovers
- Calculating relevant turnover for fines
- Assessing lost profits due to misuse of confidential information
- Analyzing and assessing damages claims involving professional sports leagues and associations
HKA has extensive experience in merger control matters. Our experts have:
- Overseen compliance with undertakings
- Reported to competition authorities on divestments of standalone and integrated businesses and assets
- Supervised long-term behavioral remedies, including price caps, supply commitments, and contractual restrictions
While maintaining independence, our teams work closely with the Approved Independent Manager, the merged firm, and legal representatives to ensure efficient monitoring. We engage openly on potential issues and collaborate with competition authorities and merged firms to resolve challenges quickly and minimize delays.
HKA experts have overseen compliance with undertakings across North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. We have assessed the suitability of proposed purchasers and monitored:
- Divestitures of businesses and assets
- Pricing and licensing of intellectual property
- Behavioral remedies such as supply commitments and contractual restrictions
Acting on behalf of both sellers and buyers, our experts have served as monitoring trustees for undertakings given to competition authorities, including the European Commission and agencies across the Americas.
With a trusted track record across the Americas and around the world, HKA brings deep experience, independence, and integrity to every antitrust and competition engagement.
Whether supporting merger control, monitoring compliance, or providing expert testimony in complex disputes, our teams deliver clear, actionable insights that help clients navigate regulatory scrutiny, resolve challenges efficiently, and make confident decisions in high-stakes environments.
