FTC Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch will speak about the three main areas of antitrust concern for pharma manufacturers, at ACI’s 5th Annual In-House Counsel Forum on Pharmaceutical Antitrust, to take place at the Helmsley Park Lane Hotel in New York City on February 17th and 18th, 2010.

The three areas he will cover are:

-    Reverse settlement payments
-    Authorized genetics
-    Pharmaceutical mergers

In past months, a consensus position by DOJ and the FTC has been noticed on antitrust matters.  In fact, DOJ took back its previous position on reverse settlement agreements, and currently, both organizations consider these agreements anticompetitive.  There is pending legislation that could define, by itself, a prohibition on these agreements if several circumstances are not present.  This shows that the Congress is supporting the antitrust efforts of both organizations in the pharma industry.  Moreover, the European Commission’s Directorate General’s Pharmaceutical Sector Inquiry report adds a more global scope to this dense field.

The Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Competition, Richard Feinstein, along with FTC attorneys Markus Meier, Assistant Director of the Health Care Division, and Michael Moiseyev, Assistant Director of the Mergers l Division, will speak at this event, which is recognized as the place where the leading antitrust authorities meet every year to discuss their upcoming enforcement plans.  Also participating will be Philip Weiser, Deputy Assistant Attorney General from the DOJ’s Antitrust Division, and Harald Mische, member of the EC’s DG Competition’s Pharmaceutical Task Force.

Sunsieray McCall, ACI’s Senior Conference Producer, recalls that the attendance of antitrust enforcers from both the U.S. and EU will offer this conference’s attendees a deep understanding of antitrust priorities under a new global enforcement system.

If you want to know more about ACI’s 5th Annual In-House Counsel Forum on Pharmaceutical Antitrust, contact your life sciences consulting firm, visit American Conference/ PharmaAntitrust, or contact Sunsieray McCall directly at s.mccall@americanconference.com or at the phone number 212-352-3220, ext. 498.

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