Antitrust Lawyer
Antitrust Laws protect consumers from predatory business practices. They prohibit anticompetitive conduct like price fixing, market allocations, boycotts, bid rigging, monopolies, refusals to deal and tying arrangements.
Our Experience
In the last twenty years, Criden & Love is proud to have represented clients, both big and small, in some of the largest antitrust cases being prosecuted. Whether as the Lead Counsel in a class action, or simply representing a client in a private individual opt out case, Criden & Love has developed an expertise in the antitrust area. Some of the cases we have been involved in are listed below.
Sample Cases
Boyd Gaming Corp. v. Visa (E.D.N.Y.)
Represented MGM Resorts International, Progressive Insurance, Seminole Gaming, Seminole Hard Rock Entertainment, TGI Fridays, Forever 21, Landry’s Restaurants, Inc., Everi Holdings Inc. (f/k/a Global Cash Access Holdings, Inc.), Boyd Gaming, among other corporate entities, in successful antitrust case against Visa and Mastercard for unlawfully conspiring to increase interchange fees; confidential multi-million dollar settlement.
Castro v. Sanofi Pasteur Inc. (D.N.J.)
Criden & Love participated as Class Counsel on behalf of pediatricians against drug company for illegal tying arrangement relating to children’s vaccines; settled for $61.5 million.
Blood Reagents Antitrust Litigation (E.D. Pa.)
Criden & Love served as Class Counsel on behalf of hospitals against manufacturers who conspired to fix prices on blood reagents; settled for $41.5 million.
DDAVP Indirect Purchaser Litigation (S.D.N.Y.)
Criden & Love served as Co-Lead Counsel on behalf of consumers and insurers in pay-for-delay antitrust case; settled for $4.75 million.
In re: Dental Supplies Antitrust Litigation (E.D.N.Y.)
Criden & Love served as Class Counsel on behalf of class of dentists against dental supply manufacturers that illegally boycotted competitors to maintain high prices; settled for $80 million.
Disposable Contact Lens Antitrust Litigation (M.D. Fla.)
Criden & Love serves as Class Counsel on behalf of consumers who made retail purchases of disposable contact lenses, alleging that certain manufacturers conspired to impose minimum resale prices; pending.
Foreign Exchange Antitrust Litigation (S.D.N.Y.)
Criden & Love serves as Class Counsel on behalf of investors who entered into FX instruments, alleging that certain banks conspired to fix FX Benchmark Rates; 15 settlements for $2,310,275,000; claims against other banks pending.
Libor-Based Financial Instruments Antitrust Litigation (S.D.N.Y.)
Criden & Love serves as Class Counsel of exchange-based investors in futures, swaps, and other Libor-based derivative products, alleging that certain banks manipulated Libor rates; settled with majority of banks for $180 million; case continues against non-settling banks.
Liquid Aluminum Sulfate Antitrust Litigation (D.N.J.)
Criden & Love served as Class Counsel on behalf of direct purchasers of Liquid Aluminum Sulfate in market allocation and bid rigging conspiracy; settled for over $80 million.
TFT-LCD Antitrust Litigation (N.D. Cal.)
Criden & Love served as Class Counsel, up and through trial, on behalf of direct purchasers against for price-fixing manufacturers Thin Film Transistor Liquid Crystal Displays; settled for $470 million.
Titanium Dioxide Antitrust Litigation (D. Md.)
Criden & Love served as Class Counsel on behalf of direct purchasers against manufacturers for price fixing titanium dioxide; settled for $165 million.
Treasury Securities Auction Antitrust Litigation (S.D.N.Y)
Criden & Love represents proprietary trading firms of U.S. Treasuries and Treasury-predicated instruments alleging that certain banks conspired to fix and manipulate the markets for U.S. Treasuries and Treasury-predicated instructions and related auctions; pending.
Tricor Indirect Purchaser Antitrust Litigation (D. Del.)
Criden & Love served as Class Counsel on behalf of consumers and insurers in a monopolization case regarding the drug Tricor; settled for $65.7 million.
Litovich v. Bank of America, et al. (S.D.N.Y.)
Criden & Love serves as Class Counsel against major banks for fixing the price of corporate bonds in the secondary market; pending.
VistaHealthplan v. Cephalon, Inc (E.D. Pa.)
Criden & Love served as Co-Lead Counsel on behalf of consumers and insurers in pay-for-delay antitrust case involving the drug Provigil; settled for $65,877,600.