Lowey Dannenberg, P.C. is pleased to welcome its newest partner, Joseph Nielsen, to the firm. Joe built a storied career in private and public roles representing victims of antitrust conspiracies in the technology and pharmaceutical industries.
During his 19 years at the Connecticut Attorney General’s Office, Joe gained extensive experience building antitrust cases from the ground up. After years of developing evidence of antitrust violations, Joe and a team of public antitrust enforcers successfully tried to verdict the claims made by 33 State Attorney Generals that Apple and several large book publishers conspired to raise e-book prices. When a Southern District of New York court found that Apple had violated the antitrust laws after a three-week trial on liability, Apple agreed to pay $400 million if its appeals were rejected. They were, and Joe’s multi-year effort paid off, and the victims received meaningful results.
Most recently, Joe headed a team of 54 states and U.S. territories prosecuting one of the largest antitrust conspiracies in U.S. history. Having received limited information that certain generic pharmaceutical manufacturers raised the prices of generic drugs, Joe sprang into action and issued civil investigative demands. He then led a team of lawyers reviewing reams of produced documents and discovered massive industry wrongdoing, including several collusive price increases that exceeded 1000%. During the last decade, Joe has litigated this sprawling case on behalf of the states.
Joe’s efforts on the Generics case will continue even as he has returned to private practice. With Lowey representing many of the largest institutional buyers of generic drugs in the Nation, including Aetna, Humana, Elevance Health, and over 70 other health insurers, Joe’s deep knowledge of evidence and extensive litigation expertise will well serve his new private clients as their cases head to trial. In addition to the Generics case, Lowey is proud to represent many of these clients in other antitrust and marketing cases, letting Joe bring his prodigious skill set to complement the vigorous representation of these claims in the long term.
“When I was considering a move back to private practice, I had worked with many good firms across the Nation with experience in antitrust and pharmaceutical litigation. But my first choice was never in doubt – I wanted to work for Lowey. No firm has the experience, judgment, and client roster in affirmative pharmaceutical litigation that Lowey has. I’m simply delighted to get to work.” Said Joseph Nielsen, Partner at Lowey Dannenberg, P.C.
“We are very excited for Joe to roll up his sleeves and join our Healthcare Litigation Team. Our clients are all thrilled that we can bring this type of proven leader to their important cases and impose discipline on instances where the pharmaceutical industry’s excesses result in unnecessary costs of delivering healthcare to their members.” Said Peter St. Phillip, Lowey Dannenberg’s President and Head of Litigation.
Contact Joe at jnielsen@lowey.com