Bayer defends rubber chemicals antitrust class action litigation
Clients Bayer AG
In connection with multiple, putative class action antitrust lawsuits filed in various federal and state courts alleging price fixing and market allocation of rubber chemicals, Jones Day acted as national coordinating and trial counsel for Bayer AG and its affiliates. In the state court cases, the plaintiffs sought damages as indirect purchasers of those products, and in the federal cases, the plaintiffs sought damages as direct purchasers of those products.
In re Rubber Chems. Antitrust Litig., MDL 1648, 232 F.R.D. 346 (class certification) (N.D. Cal.)