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Berman DeValerio has a growing national reputation for our work prosecuting class actions that involve anticompetitive conduct and conspiracies to fix or maintain prices. The experienced senior attorneys in our Antitrust Practice Group have engineered substantial settlements and changed business practices of defendant companies, recovering more than $1 billion for our clients overall.
Over the years, Berman DeValerio has played a major role in the prosecution of numerous landmark antitrust cases. For example, the firm was lead counsel in the Toys“R”Us litigation, which developed the antitrust laws with respect to “hub and spoke” conspiracies and resulted in a $62 million settlement. Berman DeValerio brought the first action centered on so-called “reverse payments” between a brand name drug maker and a generic drug maker, resulting in an $80 million settlement from the drug makers, which had been accused of keeping a generic version of their blood pressure medication off the market.
The firm has also been at the forefront of some of the largest antitrust cases. For example, the firm negotiated a $295 million settlement in what is believed to be the first successful prosecution of diamond giant DeBeers under U.S. antitrust laws. We also secured more than $92 million in settlements in an antitrust action involving the makers of contact lenses.
The firm currently holds leadership positions in significant antitrust class actions around the country and is actively litigating numerous others. Defendants in these cases include Netflix Inc., Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. and top major automobile manufacturers, to name a few.
While the majority of antitrust cases are settled, our attorneys have experience taking antitrust class actions to trial. Because we represent only plaintiffs in antitrust matters, we do not have the conflicts of interest of other national law firms that represent both plaintiffs and defendants. Our experience also allows us to counsel medium and larger-sized corporations considering whether to participate as a class member or opt-out and pursue an individual strategy.
For a complete list of our antitrust cases, use the pull-down menu on the right. Select the "Antitrust" practice area in the second field, then click "Search."
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