Margaret A. Rogers has nearly two decades’ experience litigating high stakes complex commercial, antitrust, and class action disputes for clients spanning a wide array of industries in state and federal courts throughout the United States. She has deep experience leading all stages of litigation and appeal, including managing discovery, working with experts to develop reports and testimony, and successfully arguing motions at all stages of litigation, including on appeal. Her clients include Fortune 500 companies in the publishing, rail freight transportation, pharmaceuticals, and financial services industries.
Margaret is a member of the American Bar Association, Antitrust Section and serves on the Executive Committee of the New York State Bar Association, Antitrust Section. She is also a member of the firm's Women's Initiative for Success & Empowerment (WISE) group. She maintains an active pro bono practice handling civil and criminal appellate litigation matters.
Experience
- Generic pharmaceuticals manufacturer in defense of wholesaler (direct purchaser) and third party payor (indirect purchaser) class, opt-out direct and indirect purchaser actions, and State enforcement and damages actions, in a consolidated federal multi-district litigation and related state court actions, in which plaintiffs allege that the company conspired with several other generic drug makers to increase prices of a number of different generic drugs.
- Major U.S. book publisher in securing dismissal of purported class actions in the SDNY alleging that Amazon and several publishers conspired to restrain competition in the sale of electronic books by agreeing to certain alleged vertical restrains in the publishers’ individual distribution agreements with Amazon.
- Major U.S. book publisher in obtaining dismissal of purported class action in the SDNY alleging that several publishers discriminated in price in the sale of physical books in favor of Amazon, that Amazon induced such discrimination and that the discrimination was the result of a conspiracy among Amazon and the publishers to restrain competition for the sale of physical books.
- Samsung Electronics America Inc. in defending litigation seeking contractual indemnification arising from Samsung’s sale of cable set-top boxes to Cablevision Systems. Obtained favorable settlement.
- Group of lenders in defeating the efforts of another lender to impose, by court order, a restructuring of Arch Coal Inc.'s multibillion dollar debt over their objection. The New York State Supreme Court denied a request by an affiliate of GSO Capital Partners for a temporary restraining order that would have prevented our clients from exercising their rights in regard to a debt exchange proposed by Arch Coal, one of the world's largest coal producers. The case was voluntarily dismissed.
- Penguin Group in securing dismissal of actions brought by defunct electronic book resellers claiming to have been forced out of business as a result of an alleged conspiracy among Apple, Inc. and five major publishers to shift the sale of electronic books to an "agency model" distribution methodology.
- Major railroad in defense of a nationwide class action antitrust lawsuit against major U.S. railroads alleging collusion to fix fuel surcharges on freight shipments in violation of the Sherman Act.
- Guarantors and family in defeating the efforts of a lender to assert fraudulent conveyance claims. The New York Supreme Court dismissed the claims against our clients while allowing other claims to proceed.
- Owners of private beachfront property in the East Hamptons who had been joined in an action to quiet title to a portion of the beach. We represented the only homeowners who successfully demonstrated title to their portion of the beach.
- Major financial services companies in fraudulent transfer litigation in connection with Mervyn's bankruptcy.
Perspectives
Recognition
Credentials
Education
- J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 2008, cum laude
- B.A., Wellesley College, 2004, cum laude
Admissions
- New York
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
Clerkships
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, The Honorable Vincent L. Briccetti
Activities
- Member, Federal Bar Council
- Member, Antitrust Section, American Bar Association
- Member, Executive Committee, Antitrust Section, New York State Bar Association