Biography
Sharon Robertson is a Partner at Cohen Milstein Sellers and Toll and is a nationally recognized leader in complex, multi-district class actions, with a particular focus on pharmaceutical antitrust litigation.
Sharon spearheads Cohen Milstein’s efforts in pay-for-delay pharmaceutical antitrust lawsuits, a cutting-edge and industry-defining area of law, which allege that the defendant brand manufacturer entered into non-competition agreements with generic manufacturers to delay entry of lower-priced generic products. She also leads the firm’s generic price-fixing cases, which allege that certain generic drug manufacturers conspired to inflate the prices of generic drug products. These cases come on the heels of a government investigation led by the U.S. Department of Justice alleging similar conduct, which, while ongoing, has already resulted in indictments and guilty pleas.
Sharon is also an accomplished trial lawyer, having served as a trial team member in two of the largest antitrust cases tried to verdict:
• In re Urethanes Antitrust Litigation, where the jury returned a $400 million verdict, which was trebled by the Court, as required by antitrust law, resulting in the largest price-fixing verdict in U.S. history.
•In re Nexium Antitrust Litigation, the first pharmaceutical antitrust case to go to trial following the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in FTC v. Actavis, 570 U.S. 756 (2013).
Sharon is a leader inside the firm as well. She serves on the Executive Committee. Prior to joining the Executive Committee, Sharon served as a Co-Chair of the Professional Development and Mentoring Committee and as a member of the Hiring & Diversity Committee for over a decade.
While attending law school, Sharon was an intern in the Litigation Bureau of the Office of the New York State Attorney General and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Additionally, while in law school, she was selected as an Alexander Fellow and spent a semester serving as a full-time Judicial Intern to the Hon. Shira A. Scheindlin, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
In law school, Sharon served as notes editor for the Cardozo Public Law, Policy and Ethics Journal. Prior to attending law school, Sharon worked on the campaign committee of Councilman John Liu, the first Asian American to be elected to New York City’s City Council.