Recovery

We provide our clients with sophisticated alternatives to the class action approach, often achieving recoveries through negotiation, arbitration, and litigation as much as ten times more than the class recoveries. These alternatives maximize recovery based on a balanced and tailored approach that demonstrates resolve and commitment to results, while at the same time maintaining important commercial relationships with actual or potential suppliers. In fact, we have been able to turn most recoveries into "win-win" situations for our clients and their key suppliers.

Our recovery practice is focused on several key areas, including antitrust, health care, international trade, intellectual property, government contracts, U.S. and EU Customs/international supply chain, and tax. Working closely together, lawyers from these and other Crowell & Moring practices provide cross-disciplinary counsel that can result in positive client outcomes. For example, we have recently helped clients recover hundreds of millions of dollars in litigation involving price-fixing and cartel activity in the Mastercard/Visa interchange fee, DRAM and LCD actions. 

Our solutions are also global in nature; for example, for domestic clients we regularly seek recovery opportunities beyond the borders of the United States. With offices in London and Brussels, and a network of local legal counsel and other experts worldwide, we have sophistication and experience in numerous foreign courts and international tribunals. For example, we were one of the first firms to bring recovery actions before the U.K. Competition Appeal Tribunal and the U.K. High Court. Our successes across multiple practices and around the world have made Crowell & Moring one of the global leaders in recovery litigation.