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 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 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 also is investigating and litigating several of the Firm’s other major antitrust and consumer actions, including cases against Big Tech, Big Oil, pharma and others.
HIGHLIGHTS:
Carmen currently serves as 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). He is also 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. 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, a case against Citi, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, RBC and Morgan Stanley 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 also is lead counsel for In re FICO Antitrust Litigation, No. 20-cv-02114 (N.D. Ill.), where a putative class of businesses is seeking relief under allegations that FICO overcharged for its credit scores.
REPRESENTATIVE 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 Litigation, No. 14-cv-3116-PAE (S.D.N.Y.)
- In re Remicade Antitrust Litigation, No. 2:17-cv-04326-KSM (E.D. Pa.)
- Lincoln Adventures, LLC v. Those Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s, LondonMembers of Syndicates, No. 2:08-cv-00235 (D. N.J.)