PRACTICE EMPHASIS:
Carmen Medici is a partner in Scott+Scott’s San Diego office who specializes in antitrust class action litigation focused on the technology, pharma, financial, energy, and commodities sector. He represents businesses and consumers who are the victims of price-fixing, monopolization, collusion, and other anticompetitive and unfair business practices. He has worked on multiple complex class action and other cases to jury verdicts.
In addition to his current leadership roles, Carmen is known as a collaborative member of the worldwide competition team, working on and providing insight into various other cases across the world. He is passionate about investigating and generating several of the Firm’s other major antitrust and consumer actions, including cases against Big Tech, commodities manufacturers, Wall Street, pharma, and others.
BIO:
Carmen is co-lead counsel in In re RealPage, Inc., Rental Software Antitrust Litigation (No. II), No. 23-md-03071 (M.D. Tenn.), a groundbreaking case alleging that major property owners and managers across the country used advanced data collecting techniques and artificial intelligence to inflate the cost of living to millions of renters nationwide. He is also co-lead counsel in Klein et al. v. Meta Platforms, Inc., 20-cv-08570 (N.D. Cal.) where he represents advertisers who allege they overpaid for advertising purchased from Meta Platforms (f/k/a Facebook). Carmen also leads the Scott+Scott team heading up Oklahoma Firefighters Pension and Retirement System v. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft et al., No. 23-cv-05095 (S.D.N.Y), a case against Citi, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, RBC, and Morgan Stanley where through real-time Bloomberg instant messaging, conspired to and did manipulate the market for UK government bonds (known as Gilts) to benefit their own spreads and trading books to the detriment of their clients. He recently led the team in researching and developing In re: Shale Oil Antitrust Litig., No. 24-md-3119 (D.N.M.) the first case which alleged the shale frackers in the United States were working with OPEC to reduce worldwide oil production to inflate their profits directly harming U.S. gasoline purchasers during and coming out of the COVID pandemic. This case was followed by a raft of government inquiries, including a Federal Trade Commission complaint which determined that a certain participant in the industry was working to coordinate production levels with parties overseas.
In addition to his current leadership roles, Carmen is investigating and litigating a number of the Firm’s other major antitrust and consumer actions, including cases against Big Tech, Big Oil, pharma and others.
REPRSENTATIVE CASES – PRIOR TO SCOTT+SCOTT:
- In re Payment Card Interchange Fee and Merchant Discount Antitrust Litig., No. 05-md-01720 (E.D.N.Y.) ($5.5 billion settlement)
- In re Foreign Exchange Benchmark Rates Antitrust Litig., No. 13-cv-07789 (S.D.N.Y.) ($2.3 billion in settlements)
- In re Aluminum Warehousing Antitrust Litig., No. 14-cv-3116-PAE (S.D.N.Y.)
- In re Remicade Antitrust Litig., No. 2:17-cv-04326-KSM (E.D. Pa.)
- Lincoln Adventures, LLC v. Those Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s, No. 2:08-cv-00235 (D. N.J.)