Who We Help

Representing America’s Competitive Core

From small business owners to innovators and builders, we represent the people driving America’s competitive core.

  • Healthcare & Pharmacy

    Protecting independent providers from vertically integrated systems

  • Two farmers, a man and a woman, walking in a farm field at sunset, looking at a tablet.

    Agriculture & Food

    Advocating for fair competition across the supply chain

  • Man in gray shirt and glasses working with a cardboard box at a desk, with a woman in the background handling boxes in a warehouse.

    Retail, E-Commerce and Consumer Markets

    Challenging platform dominance and pricing discrimination

  • Multiple brown glass beer bottles with golden caps on conveyor in a brewery.

    Alcohol & Beverage

    Supporting independent producers, distributors, and retailers

  • Financial Services & Housing

    Expanding access and competition in capital markets

Issue Expertise

Healthcare & Pharmacy

Vertically integrated healthcare conglomerates spanning insurance, pharmacy benefit management, retail pharmacy, and distribution use their consolidated market power to squeeze:

  • Independent pharmacies

  • Independent physicians and medical practices

  • Pharmacy manufacturers

  • Smaller drug wholesalers

The result: limited patient choice, constrained provider independence, and distorted drug pricing and availability.

CMS works with affected businesses and associations to challenge these structures through enforcement, legislation, and coalition pressure.


Independent distributors, retailers, and producers face competitive pressures from vertically integrated beverage conglomerates and dominant retailers.

CMS works with industry stakeholders to protect:

  • The competitive structure of beverage markets

  • The three-tier system adopted under the 21st Amendment to the Constitution

Alcohol & Beverage

Agriculture & Food

Concentration across the food supply chain — from seed and input markets to farm implements, food retail, and food service distribution — harms farmers, ranchers, and food producer suppliers (CPGs) alike.

CMS brings deep experience in agriculture competition policy, including:

  • Robinson-Patman Act enforcement in grocery

  • Packers and Stockyards Act strategies for livestock, poultry, and meat

  • Supply chain discrimination and exclusionary practices


Concentration in the real economy, financial markets, and ancillary services creates a challenging environment for:

  • Midsized and community lenders

  • Real estate brokers

  • Housing developers

and the Main Street economies they serve.

CMS helps clients navigate the regulatory and legislative landscape to promote fair competition in financial services and supports aligning the financial services sector with a more competitive real economy.

Financial Services & Housing

Retail, E-Commerce, & Consumer Markets

Independent retailers and suppliers across sectors face economic discrimination from dominant trading partners and competitors, including:

  • Discriminatory pricing

  • Buyer and platform coercion

  • Channel restrictions

  • Digital platform self-preferencing

  • Exclusionary conduct

CMS develops advocacy strategies that target these practices through federal and state enforcement channels.