Christopher J. McDonald, a member of the Firm’s Antitrust Practice Group, represents businesses, associations and individuals injured by anticompetitive activities. Mr. McDonald’s practice also involves representing institutional investors victimized by securities fraud.

In the antitrust field, Mr. McDonald currently represents end-payors (e.g., union health and welfare funds and consumers) of the prescription drug TriCor® in the In re TriCor Indirect Purchaser Antitrust Litigation. The drug’s manufacturer and U.S. marketer are alleged to have unlawfully impeded the introduction of lower-priced generic alternatives in violation of federal and state antitrust laws. The case is set to go to trial in early November 2008.

In the securities field, Mr. McDonald is currently prosecuting In re Schering-Plough Corporation/ENHANCE Securities Litigation to recover losses investors suffered after the disclosure of negative clinical trial data for Vytorin®, a fixed-dose combination pill comprised of ezitimibe (Schering-Plough’s Zetia®) and simvastatin (Merck & Co., Inc.’s Zocor®). He was also part of the team that litigated In re Bristol-Myers Squibb Securities Litigation, where Labaton Sucharow was able to secure a $185 million settlement and meaningful corporate governance reforms on behalf of Bristol-Myers Squibb shareholders following negative disclosures about omapatrilat, an experimental hypertension drug. The settlement with BMS is the largest ever obtained against a pharmaceutical company in a securities fraud case that did not involve a restatement of financial results.

A litigator for most of his career, Mr. McDonald also has in-house and regulatory experience. As a senior attorney with a telecommunications company he regularly addressed legal, economic and public policy issues before state public utility commissions.

Mr. McDonald received his undergraduate degree, cum laude, from Manhattan College in 1985, and a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law in 1992, where he was on the Law Review. 

Mr. McDonald is admitted to practice in New York as well as before the following federal courts: the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third and Federal Circuits; the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; and the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan. He is a member of the New York State Bar Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.