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Antitrust Goes Global

By Lily Henning
November 10, 2003

Billions of dollars in potential awards, a new map for antitrust litigation, and what many say is a likely spot on the Supreme Court docket; Empagran v. F. Hoffman-LaRoche has it all. What could it mean for U.S. pharmaceutical (and other) companies? “Corporations in this country and all over the world are really scared of this,” says Paul Gallagher, a Washington D.C.-based Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll partner who serves as lead plaintiffs counsel in the case.

A class action filed by foreign vitamin buyers, the suit is the latest round in the already epic litigation over vitamin price fixing. The cases stem from a Department of Justice criminal investigation that began in the mid-1990s and have yielded more than $1 billion in fines against a cartel of multinational pharmaceutical giants.

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