The Evolving Standards for Antitrust Class Certification: Exploring Unresolved Issues
The past year has brought significant developments in the antitrust class action context, leaving questions and issues over the certification process standards. Aside from the litigation challenges caused by the shifting rules, US courts are also reinforcing their probe of proposed classes making it increasingly difficult to obtain early class decisions.
Judicial decisions in recent years have increased the requirements for antitrust appeals. Thus, litigators must always be in the loop of all emerging trends and considerations to litigate putative class actions efficiently and effectively.
Our panel of key thought leaders and practitioners will offer a discussion of the evolving standards in antitrust class certification as well as the significant issues surrounding this area of law. This LIVE Webcast aims to help you navigate the challenges in litigating antitrust class certification issues.
Field of Study: Business Law
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Partner Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC
Dan McCuaig is an Antitrust Partner at Cohen Milstein. Currently, among other matters, he is counsel to putative classes in Iowa Public Employees’ Retirement System v. Bank of America Corporation (S.D.N.Y.) and In Re da Vinci Surgical Robots Antitrust Litigation (N.D. Cal.). Mr. McCuaig joined Cohen Milstein from the Antitrust Division at the U.S. Department of Justice, where, among other matters, he oversaw the government’s investigation into the e-books price fixing conspiracy litigated in In Re Electronic Books Antitrust Litigation (S.D.N.Y.), played a principal role in the government’s trial establishing Apple’s participation in that conspiracy, and cross-examined Anthem expert economist Robert Willig in the Antitrust Division’s successful challenge to the proposed merger between Anthem and Cigna.
Partner at StoneTurn Group, LLP
Stefan Boedeker is a Partner at StoneTurn where he heads up the global statistical consulting practice. Over the last thirty years, he has worked on hundreds of cases and projects in the litigation and management consulting context, where he specializes in the application of economic, statistical, and financial models to areas such as solutions to business issues, economic impact studies, and complex litigation cases. Mr. Boedeker has provided economic, financial, and statistical consulting and expert services to clients across a wide range of industries, including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, high technology, entertainment, manufacturing, retail, real estate, insurance, and financial services, and federal, state, and local governments. He has issued hundreds of expert reports and given deposition and trial testimony in state and federal courts, arbitrations, and regulatory hearings nationally and internationally over 200 times.
Partner Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
Fara Tabatabai is a partner and experienced litigator in Hughes Hubbard & Reed’s New York office. Her practice focuses on complex commercial and products liability litigation and arbitration. She represents U.S. and international clients in a variety of industries and has served as litigation and trial counsel in numerous high-stakes domestic and international disputes. She has particular experience in multi-district and cross-border disputes and acted as counsel to the European debtors of the Nortel Networks enterprise in the first U.S.-Canadian cross-border trial in history. In 2019, the New York Law Journal selected Fara as one of the New York legal profession’s “Rising Stars.” Crain’s New York Business Magazine also selected Fara as one of its “Notable Women in Law” for 2020.
