Jarod Bona concentrates his practice on antitrust litigation and counseling. He has counseled clients on state, federal, and international antitrust issues. He also has experience with other complex commercial litigation, including class actions. In addition, he devotes a substantial portion of his practice to appellate litigation in both state and federal courts.

DLA Piper's Antitrust practice group, of which Mr. Bona is a member, was recently ranked as the #1 Antitrust Litigation practice by Martindale-Hubbell®, according to the total number of antitrust cases in which the firm has represented clients in US Federal District Courts during the prior two years.

Mr. Bona represents clients in a wide variety of antitrust matters, including civil and criminal defense of price fixing and market allocation allegations, loyalty discount and other exclusionary conduct issues, merger and acquisition transactions, resale-price maintenance programs, Noerr-Pennington issues, state-action immunity issues, labor-exemption issues, Robinson-Patman Act issues and government investigations. Mr. Bona has also developed a global antitrust and competition policy for an international trade association.

He has recently represented technology, consumer, manufacturing, banking, insurance, energy and other Fortune 500 clients in civil and governmental actions involving antitrust, unfair competition, RICO, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, business torts, products liability, malicious prosecution, securities laws and alleged kickbacks. He has also represented clients in numerous state and federal appellate courts throughout the country, and has recently argued before the Eighth Circuit and Minnesota Court of Appeals.

Mr. Bona recently won a bench trial, as first chair, for a client involving fraud claims and up to $2.5 million at stake.

Mr. Bona is a frequent commentator on antitrust developments, and writes several articles each year for a variety of publications. He is also a Non-Governmental Advisor for the Unilteral Conduct Working Group of the International Competition Network, which is an international body devoted exclusively to competition law enforcement with members representing national and multi-national competition authorities. In addition, Mr. Bona has reviewed articles for the Antitrust Law Journal.

In 2010, his article "The Diminishing Role of the Private Attorney General in Antitrust and Securities Class Action Cases Aided by the Supreme Court" was honored with the Burton Award for Legal Writing Achievement. The Burton Award is dedicated to the enrichment and refinement of writing in the legal profession and is presented by the Burton Foundation, a nonprofit cultural and academic organization devoted to promoting the legal profession. This article was also cited by Chief District Judge B. Lynn Winmill of the Federal District of Idaho in In re Micron Technology, Inc. Securities Litigation.

Mr. Bona graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2001, where he was a John M. Olin Law and Economics Fellow and Senior Editor of the Harvard Journal on Legislation. He began his legal career by clerking in Minneapolis, Minnesota with Chief Judge James B. Loken of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Following his clerkship, he joined the appellate and constitutional law group at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Washington, DC. Mr. Bona also practiced law in California for several years before moving home to Minnesota. Although he resides in Minnesota for most of the year, Mr. Bona continues to participate in legal matters involving California law and is an active member of the California bar.

Representative Matters

• Represent client in case alleging predatory conduct under Section 2 of the Sherman Act. (Church & Dwight v. Mayer Laboratories)
• Represent major producer of packaged ice in state court and federal multidistrict litigation involving allegations of market allocation and price-fixing (In re Packaged Ice Litigation)
• Represent financial brokerage company in federal multidistrict litigation involving alleged conspiracy in municipal derivatives industry (In re Municipal Derivatives Antitrust Litigation)
• Represent company in multi-district class action antitrust and RICO lawsuit challenging the insurance and insurance brokerage industries in both district court and the Third Circuit (In re Insurance Brokerage Antitrust Litigation)
• Represent company in various state attorney general unfair competition and antitrust actions throughout the country involving the insurance brokerage industry
• Represent company in class action antitrust and unfair competition suit involving the energy industry (In re Wholesale Electricity Antitrust Litigation)
• Represent clients in several matters in state and federal appellate courts
• Represent clients in pre-merger Hart-Scott-Rodino filings
• Counsel clients on resale-price maintenance issues under state and federal antitrust laws
• Represent clients in breach of contract and business tort actions
• Represent plaintiffs in malicious prosecution actions in state and federal court following unsuccessful antitrust claims
• Represent client in securities class action in the Ninth Circuit
• Represent various technology companies in commercial litigation
• Represent client in "Winstar" action in the Federal Circuit