Arindam Kar’s practice encompasses antitrust compliance, counseling, government investigations, and counseling higher education institutions. Arindam partners with clients in the development and implementation of robust antitrust compliance programs. Arindam also works with clients on antitrust audits, including the implementation of recommendations in a cost-effective manner to strengthen the client’s compliance and risk management profiles. Arindam has extensive experience with day-to-day counseling in addition to advising on complex global mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and group purchasing organization formations in a diverse range of industries including but not limited to agribusiness, animal genetics and nutrition, healthcare, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and retail. Arindam also regularly counsels manufacturing and retail clients on complex pricing issues that involve e-commerce and traditional distribution channels, price discrimination, price gouging, and resale price maintenance strategies. Arindam regularly represents clients in merger investigations before the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. In addition, Arindam coordinates and manages multijurisdictional merger filing strategies on deals that have a global implications. Arindam also has extensive experience in conducting internal investigations and representing corporations and individuals in federal and state antitrust investigations. In addition to serving as Vice-Chair of the ABA Antitrust Section's Agriculture and Food Committee, Arindam is the Chair of the Missouri Bar Antitrust and Mergers and Acquisitions Committee.
In addition to his antitrust practice, Arindam has managed counseling higher education clients on a number of issues ranging from data privacy, free expression on campus, general legal compliance, immigration, and risk management.
Arindam is a leader in diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts and is a servant leader in numerous organizations in the community such as the boards of the International Institute and Mid-America Transplant. Arindam also regularly handles pro bono immigration matters and is currently helping lead the region's effort resettling Afghan special immigrant visa holders, humanitarian parolees, and refugees. Previously, Arindam was a founding appointed member of St. Louis City-County Governance Task Force in developing a framework to unify the multiple governments in the region.
More Legal and Business Bylines From Arindam Kar
- Vote Scheduled for FTC Final Rule Banning Non-Competes – What You Need to Know - (Posted On Thursday, April 18, 2024)
- FTC and DOJ Signal Greatly Increased Scrutiny of Private Equity Firms’ Acquisitions in Health Care - (Posted On Tuesday, March 19, 2024)
- It’s That Time of Year: Announcement of the New Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Filing Thresholds - (Posted On Thursday, January 25, 2024)
- Newly Finalized FTC/DOJ Merger Guidelines Are Likely to Increase Antitrust Scrutiny of M&A Deals - (Posted On Friday, December 22, 2023)
- Proposed Changes to HSR Process Could Quadruple the Burden of Making Premerger Notification to Antitrust Enforcement Agencies - (Posted On Sunday, July 09, 2023)
- No More Safety Net: The Justice Department Withdraws Key Antitrust Guidance for the Healthcare Industry - (Posted On Thursday, February 16, 2023)
- The New Hart-Scott-Rodino Magic Number is $111.4 million, and Big Changes in HSR Filing Fees - (Posted On Wednesday, February 01, 2023)
- What’s Old Is New Again: Reviving “Fairness” With Renewed FTC Price Discrimination Enforcement And What That Means For Companies - (Posted On Wednesday, January 18, 2023)
- The Time Is Now: Comment Period Open For The Federal Trade Commission’s New Proposed Rule Banning Employer Non-Compete Clauses - (Posted On Tuesday, January 17, 2023)
- New Federal Laws Will Yield Big Increases in HSR Filing Fees for Large M&A Transactions, While Adding Foreign Subsidy Disclosure Obligations - (Posted On Wednesday, January 04, 2023)