Practice

Ms. Kafele is a partner in the Antitrust and Litigation Groups in our Washington, D.C. office. She has extensive experience in complex litigation, investigations, and regulatory proceedings with a particular emphasis on complex antitrust issues. She has represented plaintiffs and defendants in monopolization, price-fixing, predatory pricing, bundling, tying, unfair competition and leveraging cases in state and federal courts across the country. Ms. Kafele has extensive experience representing healthcare companies (pharmaceuticals, medical devices, hospitals, and biotech companies) in cutting edge antitrust matters. Ms. Kafele also has represented a broad range of domestic and foreign clients with antitrust issues in state and federal investigations.

• Representation of Covidien in an antitrust class action alleging exclusive dealing agreements and bundled discounts violating the antitrust laws
• Representation of a major European cargo airline in a federal multi-district class action alleging a conspiracy to fix the prices of air cargo
• Representation of Syngenta in a lawsuit filed against Monsanto Company alleging Monsanto’s bundled discounts, sham patent litigation, and customer threats violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act
• Representation of Watson Pharmaceuticals in an antitrust class action lawsuit alleging an agreement between Watson and a branded drug company to sell an “authorized generic drug” constituted unlawful monopolization, price discrimination and predatory pricing in violation of California antitrust laws
• Representation of Watson Pharmaceuticals in a lawsuit filed against Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) alleging that BMS violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act by filing false patent information in the FDA Orange Book and filing baseless patent litigation
• Representation of Watson Pharmaceuticals in an antitrust class action lawsuit alleging that a patent settlement agreement between Watson and a branded drug company violated the antitrust laws
• Representation of INO Therapeutics in an antitrust lawsuit alleging unlawful tying and filing of a baseless patent lawsuit in violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Act
• Representation of aaiPharma in three antitrust cases alleging conspiracy to monopolize and monopolization of the omeprazole drug market
• Representation of Sumitomo Rubber Industries in class action alleging conspiracy to fix prices of marine hoses

• Representation of Banco Itaú and BBVA in matters relating to the Madoff-fraud
• Representation of General Electric in nationwide class action alleging various products liability claims relating to military radar
• Representation of UFJ Bank in purchase price adjustment dispute
• Representation of Guantanamo detainees in Rasul v. Bush decided in June 2004 in which the Supreme Court ruled that the detainees have the right to habeas corpus

• American Bar Association, Section of Antitrust Law, Member
• American Bar Association, Section of Healthcare Law
• Women’s Bar Association, Member
• Instructor at Shearman & Sterling in-house discovery seminars