Many businesses use unfair and unethical methods of competition to gain an advantage in the marketplace.  The purpose is to eliminate competitors and to confuse or mislead consumers, causing the consumer to purchase the product or service.  California’s Unfair Competition Law (“UCL”) protects consumers and small businesses from “unlawful, unfair or fraudulent” business practices. 

At Fernandez Hennessy we work to defend the rights of consumers and to preserve healthy competition among businesses by combatting the following:

  • Price fixing

  • Predatory pricing

  • Trade libel

  • Price discrimination

  • Intellecutal property infringement

  • Fraud and corruption 

  • Misappropriation of confidential business information

  • Inducing breach of contract

  • Tortious interference with a contractual relationship

  • Sale of counterfeit goods