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Practice Expertise
- Antitrust and Competition
- Copyrights
- Complex Business Litigation
Areas of Practice
- Antitrust and Competition
- Complex Business Litigation
- Copyrights
- Food, Beverage and Hospitality
- Franchise and Distribution
- Healthcare
- Intellectual Property
- Litigation
- Trade Secrets
- Trademarks View More
Profile
Mike Denniston’s practice focuses on advising and litigating for clients concerning antitrust and competition law and intellectual property issues. His practice spans the breadth of the antitrust and intellectual property arena. Mike’s antitrust practice encompasses not only litigation and advising clients, but also working closely with the firm’s Corporate and Securities Practice Group on merger analysis and preparing transactions for premerger review pursuant to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act.
In addition to screening and negotiating agreements respecting trademarks and copyrights, Mike has an active trial practice in those areas. His litigation experience ranges from prosecuting and defending requests for temporary restraining orders to handling complex multiparty and multidistrict copyright litigation. His transaction work includes providing counsel on early termination and potential antitrust matters that require detailed engagement and negotiations with the FTC and the Department of Justice.
Bar Admissions
- Alabama, 1989
Court Admissions
- Supreme Court of the United States
- United States Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit
- United States District Court, Middle District of Alabama
- United States District Court, Northern District of Alabama
- United States District Court, Southern District of Alabama
Education
- University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 1989, Order of the Coif; William Minor Lile Moot Court Board
- University of Virginia, B.A., 1986
Areas of Practice
- Antitrust and Competition
- Complex Business Litigation
- Copyrights
- Food, Beverage and Hospitality
- Franchise and Distribution
- Healthcare
- Intellectual Property
- Litigation
- Trade Secrets
- Trademarks
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