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Compass Lexecon has been involved in many of the largest and most complex antitrust litigation and financial market cases over the past 30 years.
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09/13/22
Court Relies Heavily on Testimony of Compass Lexecon Expert Professor Dennis W. Carlton Compass Lexecon was retained by clients Illumina and GRAIL to provide economic analysis and expert testimony in support of a landmark vertical merger between the two companies...
- Services
- Antitrust & Competition: Mergers
- Industries
- Healthcare & Life Sciences
05/26/22
On April 26, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado granted summary judgment in favor of Compass Lexecon client Johns Manville Corporation (“Johns Manville”) on antitrust claims brought by Chase Manufacturing, Inc. (“Chase”). Chase alleged that Johns...
- Industries
- Manufacturing
07/08/20
Compass Lexecon experts provided analysis in two recent and successful outcomes in consumer class action cases alleging product defects. The first was GM’s class settlement of economic loss claims resulting from recalls of ignition switch assemblies, side airbags, and electronic...
- Services
- Class Certification
- Damages
- Industries
- Transportation
- Manufacturing
01/27/19
Compass Lexecon Expert Testifies Successfully for Defendants Plaintiffs in In re: Bearings Cases (part of In re Automotive Parts Antitrust Litigation) alleged that manufacturers of steel ball and roller bearings for automotive and industrial use conspired to elevate their prices....
- Industries
- Manufacturing
03/07/18
In the sprawling LIBOR-Based Financial Instruments Antitrust Litigation matters, Plaintiffs sought certification of three separate classes: (i) traders of Eurodollar futures and options on futures traded at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (the Exchange-Based Plaintiff Action); (ii) financial institutions that made...
06/29/12
In April 2012, the European Commission cleared Sony’s acquisition of EMI’s music publishing business, subject to conditions. The merger creates the largest business of its kind and reduces the number of so-called global ‘major’ publishing companies from four to three....
- Services
- Antitrust & Competition: Mergers
- Industries
- Digital Platforms
- Entertainment & Media
12/13/11
Janusz Ordover, Jith Jayaratne, and Yair Eilat, supported by a Compass Lexecon team from our Oakland office were retained by Colin Kass and Rhett R. Krulla of Proskauer Rose, and Kenneth B. Schwartz and James A. Keyte of Skadden, Arps,...
- Services
- Antitrust & Competition: Mergers
- Industries
- Transportation
- Manufacturing
11/16/11
In a case closely watched by the high technology industry, a California jury last week rejected Rambus, Inc.'s nearly $4 billion claim, before trebling, that Micron Technology Inc. and Hynix Semiconductor Inc. conspired to block the marketplace penetration of RDRAM,...
- Services
- Damages
- Antitrust & Competition: Conduct
- Industries
- Technology
07/09/08
In this class action, Janusz Ordover, supported by Jith Jayaratne and a Compass Lexecon team in San Francisco, provided economic analyses for Tyco Healthcare and concluded that the impact on members of a proposed class of direct purchasers of pulse...
- Industries
- Healthcare & Life Sciences
12/21/07
In this class action, Janusz Ordover, supported by Jith Jayaratne and a Compass Lexecon team in San Francisco, provided economic analysis for Tyco Healthcare and concluded that the impact on members of a proposed class of direct purchasers of pulse...
- Industries
- Healthcare & Life Sciences
10/23/07
Bobby Willig, Jith Jayaratne, Jay Ezrielev, and a Compass Lexecon team in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. provided economic analyses for Abitibi Consolidated Inc. and Bowater Inc. in their $1.6 billion merger. The merger between the two largest manufacturers of...
- Services
- Antitrust & Competition: Mergers
- Industries
- Manufacturing
06/06/07
Janusz Ordover, supported by Jith Jayaratne, Cristian Santesteban and a team in San Francisco, served as the damages expert in the Masimo v. Tyco antitrust litigation matter, which sought to ascertain whether Tyco had used contract restrictions to harm competition...