Joe Nielsen is a Partner at Lowey Dannenberg, P.C. and a member of the Firm’s Antitrust and Healthcare litigation team.

During his 19 years at the Connecticut Attorney General’s Office, he 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, Mr. Nielsen 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, he 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.