Covington has successfully litigated many complex civil and criminal antitrust matters, including nationwide class actions, consolidated multidistrict cases, short-fuse preliminary injunction proceedings, and appeals up through the United States Supreme Court. Our experience encompasses jury and bench trials in state and federal courts and before administrative agencies, and has involved such diverse industries as chemicals, communications, energy, financial services, life sciences, sports, and transportation. We combine industry expertise with first-class litigation skills to develop innovative and efficient solutions to litigation challenges.
Representative Matters
- JPMorganChase and Bank of America in putative antitrust class actions involving credit cards and ATM fees.
- Bank of America, and other large banks in a putative antitrust class action challenging the interchange fees of the credit-card networks.
- Lead counsel for Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceutical, Inc. in antitrust price fixing litigation filed against the company and other major US pharmaceutical companies in state court in California. Clayworth, et al. v. Pfizer, Inc.
- American Needle, Inc. v. New Orleans Louisiana Saints et al., 496 F. Supp.2d 941 (N.D.Ill. July 11, 2007), holding that the NFL clubs are a "single entity," immune from section 1 liability under the Sherman Act, for activities relating to collective exploitation of their intellectual property.
- Co-counsel to Ryanair in its challenge of the decision by the European Commission to prohibit the merger between Ryanair and Aer Lingus.
- GlaxoSmithKline and Purdue Pharma in patent/antitrust litigation.
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