Barbara T Sicalides

Career

From shepherding transactions through regulatory challenges to defending against civil and criminal antitrust investigations and litigation, clients turn to Barbara for clear, thorough, and practical advice on complex antitrust and competition matters.

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.”

Professional Memberships

Co-chair, Antitrust Committee of Business Law Section, Philadelphia Bar Association

Past chair, Antitrust Committee of Business Law Section, American Bar Association

Member, Board of Directors, Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Society

Personal

J.D., cum laude, Temple University School of Law, 1989, member, Temple Law Review; B.A., American History, Barnard College, 1983