| Biography:
Lou Solomon is co-head of Proskauer Rose’s 250-lawyer Global Litigation Department and Litigation Head of the Firm’s International Practice Group. He has 29 years of experience, trying over 50 complex commercial cases to judges, juries, and arbitral or governmental panels. He regularly represents leading companies such as Andrx, Bouygues S.A., Bristol-Myers Squibb, Conmed, Hertz, International Financial Group, KFC, the New York Blood Center, the New York Jets, PepsiCo, U.K.’s Premier Football League, and W.R. Huff Companies. Lou has been lead counsel for his clients in private and class action cases as well as government and regulatory proceedings, including:
- The development of Manhattan’s West Side Stadium and the U.S.’s bid for the Olympics.
- Patent, involving the world’s largest ethical pharmaceutical product; separate case involving on-line mapping in the real estate industry.
- Antitrust, involving the largest vitamins cartel ever; separate FTC proceeding involving pharmaceutical life cycle management.
- Copyright, involving the world’s largest Internet site (Google/YouTube).
- License and development agreement dispute, involving one of the world’s best-selling cancer products (litigation and arbitration).
- False advertising and unfair competition, involving the largest bottled water and vitamin water products in the U.S. and the world, respectively.
- Insurance, multiple trials securing hundreds of millions in coverage.
- Securities litigation, including FCPA matters and internal investigations.
- 100+ million trial on indemnities for the sale of aircraft manufacturing facilities.
Lou’s extensive international litigation experience has included litigations involving numerous EU countries, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Russia. His successful trial involving Argentine debt restructuring made new law in both the international and securities fields. He is also Editor-in-Chief and chief contributor of the acclaimed on-line practice guide, Proskauer on International Litigation.
Lou is ranked as a leading trial lawyer in Chambers USA 2008 and 2007, where he is described as “specializ[ing] in pulling clients out of the fire,” and whose clients "ascribe this life-saving ability to his exceptional judgment when advising on risky business or regulatory situations.” Clients say he is "just as good at crafting watertight settlements. No detail or potential future risk escapes him.” Lou was named in Best Lawyers in America 2008; highlighted by LawDragon 2007 as one of the “500 Leading Lawyers in America”; and a leader in its "New Stars, New Worlds" rankings, as well as its quarterly Leading Lawyers in America guide. Lou also has been named a New York Super Lawyer and was voted "Best of Class" in the area of Commercial Litigation by the Best of The U.S. Legal Directory.
Articles/book chapters, as well as televised debates and interviews, can be found in the Lou’s press room. He is often quoted or featured in the national and international broadcast and print media, such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fox Business, and National Public Radio. Lou received the 2006 Burton Award for Excellence in Legal Writing and is currently editor of and contributor to the “Law, Ethics, and Gender” column of peer-reviewed Journal of Gender Medicine.
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