Antitrust and other class actions and MDLs

• Defending Tyson Foods in multiple major treble-damage class actions alleging industrywide conspiracies to raise the prices of broiler chicken, pork, and turkey.
• Representing The Hartford and related entities in a long-running MDL regarding the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
• Defended Nishikawa Rubber Company in an automotive parts class action MDL in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
• Defended The Hartford in parallel wage and hour cases, including a class action brought under New York’s Wage and Hour Law, a collective action under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, and multiple parallel arbitrations.
• Defended Axinn’s longstanding client, Independence Blue Cross of Pennsylvania (IBX), in a class action MDL against the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and individual Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans. The lawsuit, which alleges that the plans' designated service areas are anti-competitive, is the most significant challenge to the Blue System in its 80-year history.

Complex commercial litigation in pharmaceutical industry

• Defending Alvogen, Inc. in breach of contract litigation in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York brought by licensor and contract manufacturer.
• Represented global pharmaceutical company and its U.S. subsidiary in an arbitration brought against a leading animal health company, resulting in settlement providing nearly the entire relief demanded by the client.
• Defended biosimilar and complex drug manufacturer in mediation over alleged breach of biosimilar development and commercialization agreement.
• Represented pharmaceutical startup in confidential international arbitration over drug development agreement.

Other complex litigation and investigations

• Defended Am Law 100 law firm in confidential malpractice arbitration, resulting in no liability.
• Defended former directors and officers of a technology startup in successful defense of SEC investigation, resulting in declination letter.
• Represented Redbox Automated Retail LLC in a copyright dispute challenging the Walt Disney Company’s sales and distribution practices.
• Represented the former President of the Queens Borough Pubic Library in litigation against the library and certain of its trustees.