NEW YORK, December 15, 2025 – Proskauer is pleased to share that it has been recognized in Global Competition Review’s 2026 ‘GCR 100’ guide, the authoritative annual guide to the world’s premier antitrust and competition practices. This distinction reflects the exceptional strength of the Firm’s Antitrust Practice, which provides strategic counsel to clients across diverse industries on complex matters, including litigation, mergers, cartels, investigations and counselling.
Over the past few years, the group has been at the forefront of some of the most consequential antitrust battles, delivering decisive victories and shaping outcomes that have garnered significant attention across the global business community. Most recently, the Firm secured a unanimous defense win on behalf of its client Major League Soccer (“MLS”) in an antitrust suit brought by the North American Soccer League (“NASL”) against MLS and co-defendant, U.S. Soccer Federation (“U.S. Soccer”), which claimed that U.S. Soccer conspired with MLS to exclude NASL from Division I and Division II professional soccer and to monopolize those claimed markets. Following a three-week trial, a 10-person jury in the Eastern District of New York delivered a full defense verdict after approximately 90 minutes of deliberation, rejecting NASL’s proposed relevant market definition as a threshold issue.
Proskauer has also achieved landmark victories across industries, including a blockbuster win for Sanderson Farms in one of the largest-ever antitrust jury trial wins involving the U.S. agriculture industry. Following a six-week trial in the Northern District of Illinois, the jury delivered a full defense verdict, rejecting claims that Sanderson Farms conspired with other broiler producers to reduce supply between 2008 and 2012. We also secured a significant defense victory for Gilead Sciences, Inc. in a $3.6 billion antitrust case on allegations that the pharmaceutical company struck an anticompetitive "pay-for-delay" patent settlement related to two of its HIV medications following a six-week trial. The verdict is only the third ever in reverse payment cases of this type, and the first ever to find for the defense on grounds of both the absence of a payment and the absence of market power for the brand in the relevant market.
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About Proskauer
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