Jones Day’s pharmaceutical team advises participants in the pharmaceutical industry worldwide. The Firm’s clients include multinational pharmaceutical companies, domestic pharmaceutical companies, specialty pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, and medical device companies.
The lawyers of the pharmaceutical team bring together numerous legal disciplines to provide specialized services to clients. Those services cover the full-range of issues confronting participants in the pharmaceutical industry:
- Financing
- M&A
- Products Liability
- Class Action Defenses
- Hatch Waxman Litigation
- Litigation
- Appellate Litigation
- Intellectual Property
- Tax
- Environmental
- Antitrust
Jones Day’s approach has enabled its clients to achieve outstanding results. Our recent work includes:
- Serving as national coordinating counsel defending Wyeth in all product liability claims involving its prescription antidepressant medication, Effexor®.
- Representing Pfizer in its $110 billion acquisition of Warner-Lambert and handling the multi-jurisdictional tax issues that Pfizer faced as part of the integration process.
- Defending Bayer Corp. and its German parent corporation, Bayer AG, in 37 antitrust cases arising out of the 1997 settlement of patent litigation regarding Bayer's antibiotic Cipro®.
- Defending the exclusivity of branded drugs such as Depakote® (Abbott Labs.), Altace® (King Pharmaceuticals, Inc.), and Univasc® (Schwarz Pharma, Inc.) from generic challenges under the Hatch-Waxman Act.
- Representing Pfizer in its successful appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, reversing a ruling that Dr. Reddy’s generic version of Pfizer's drug Norvasc® did not infringe the extended term of Pfizer’s United States patent No. 4,572,909.
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F. Dominic Cerrito
New York
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Peter Homberg
Munich
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Anthony M. Insogna
San Diego
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Brian M. Poissant
New York
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Daniel E. Reidy
Chicago
Tel: 1.312.782.3939
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Raymond J. Wiacek
Washington
Tel: 1.202.879.3939
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