ABOUT HAUSFELD LLP
Firm Resume
Hausfeld LLP is a global claimants firm dedicated to handling large and complex litigation matters on behalf of individuals, corporations and organizations in the areas of antitrust/competition law, human and civil rights, mass torts, environmental threats, securities fraud, and consumer protection.
Creative Solutions to Complex Legal Challenges Hausfeld LLP lawyers have, throughout their careers, consistently applied forward-thinking ideas and creative solutions to the most vexing global legal challenges faced by clients. As a result, the firm’s litigators have developed numerous innovative legal theories that have expanded the quality and availability of legal recourse for innocent claimants around the globe that have suffered egregious wrongs and have a right to seek recovery.
Unmatched Global Resources The firm combines its Washington, DC headquarters and U.S. offices with a broad and deep network of joint ventures and affiliate relationships to offer clients access to justice in every corner of the world and across every industry. In addition to its Washington, DC offices, the firm offers clients access to justice with operations in Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, London, and multiple affiliate locations throughout Europe, Asia, South Africa, South America and Canada.
High Caliber Track Record Hausfeld LLP lawyers have achieved successful and in many cases precedent-setting legal decisions on behalf of clients involved in complex cases worldwide. Due to the work of Hausfeld LLP lawyers, their former firm was listed in the “mass tort and class actions” section of the 2008 edition of the US Legal 500 publication as one of the top antitrust plaintiffs’ firm in the US. Legal 500 commented that: “The ‘outstanding’ Mike Hausfeld, in Washington, DC, is a titan of the antitrust bar and a ‘very creative’ advocate who is the architect behind the firm’s expansion into Europe.”
The firm’s pioneering work has included:
• Serving as Lead Counsel for non-US claims in the Air Cargo Antitrust Litigation on behalf of air freight customers against a group of international flagship airlines for fixing prices on air freight shipping. This case has already resulted in a landmark $85 million settlement with Lufthansa and will result in thousands of European businesses recovering damages for infringements of both US antitrust and EU competition law.
• The successful litigation and settlement of foreign claims in the case of Kruman v. Christie’s International PLC. et al., marking the first time that non-US claimants as a class received compensation for violation of competition laws (the fixing of auction commissions) – a milestone in both US antitrust jurisprudence and European recovery.
• Serving as Co-Lead Counsel in the Air Passenger Antitrust Litigation on behalf of thousands of air travelers around the world against British Airways and Virgin Atlantic Airways for fixing prices of air passenger transportation to and from the UK to all long-haul destinations in the world. Hausfeld LLP lawyers secured the first recovery for foreign citizens based on foreign antitrust law in a US antitrust case.
• Successful representation in the landmark case of Empagran v. F. Hoffman LaRoche, Inc., et al., of foreign purchasers in U.S. federal court to recover the billions of dollars in overcharges that resulted from a global conspiracy to fix vitamin prices and allocate market share. This case was litigated by Hausfeld LLP lawyers all the way to the United States Supreme Court, which delivered a groundbreaking judgment on US Sherman Act jurisdiction. The scope of the jurisdiction was defined and confirmed that intertwined US and non-US claims against worldwide cartels may continue to be brought in the US courts. This case was designated as the “Matter of the Year” by the Global Competition Review.
Visionary Leadership Hausfeld LLP was founded by Chairperson Michael D. Hausfeld, who is widely acknowledged as one of the country’s top civil litigators and a leading expert in the field of private enforcement of competition and antitrust laws and international human rights. He has been referred to by The New York Times as one of the nation’s “most prominent antitrust lawyers” and by Washingtonian magazine as “a Washington lawyer determined to change the world - and succeeding.” Most recently, he was listed as a top legal “visionary” by the Legal Times along with Supreme Court Justices Ginsburg and Scalia and now appointed Attorney General Eric Holder, Jr.
Mr. Hausfeld’s career has included some of the largest and most successful class actions in the fields of human rights, discrimination and antitrust law. He was among the first lawyers in the U.S. to assert that sexual harassment was a form of discrimination prohibited by Title VII. He represented Native Alaskans whose lives were affected by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill; later, he negotiated a then-historic $176 million settlement from Texaco, Inc. in a racial-bias discrimination case. In Friedman v. Union Bank of Switzerland, he represented a class of victims of the Holocaust whose assets were wrongfully retained by private Swiss banks during and after World War II. Likewise, in the German Slave Labor litigation, he was a principal architect of a multinational resolution of the civil liability of German industry to millions of civilians abused as slave and forced laborers during World War II.
Mr. Hausfeld is or has been co-lead counsel in antitrust cases ranging from price fixing cartels, abuses of dominant power (monopolization), predatory pricing, intellectual property and patent rights involving all forms of commodity products, genetically engineered foods, managed healthcare, technology and industrial chemicals. He was the only private lawyer permitted to attend and represent the interests of consumers worldwide in the 2003 closed hearings by the EU Commission in the Microsoft case.
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