Geoffrey Horn

Mr. Horn is a shareholder of the firm and focuses his practice on litigation involving prescription drug overcharges and commodities fraud.

Mr. Horn was appointed co-lead counsel on behalf of the certified class of endpayers (health insurers and consumers) seeking to recover overcharges paid for the prescription drug Hytrin. In re Terazosin Hydrochloide Antitrust Litigation, MDL 1317 (S.D. Fla.). The class action was settled for $29.3 million. Mr. Horn also had a lead role in litigating and settling, on behalf of WellPoint's subsidiary BCBS Wisconsin, and approximately 60 other health insurers, a substantial opt-out claim in the In re Lupron Marketing and Sales Practice Litigation, MDL 1430 (D.Mass.).

Mr. Horn, as co-lead counsel of the firm's commodity litigation practice group, frequently represents investors in commodities fraud litigations.  In February 2008, Mr. Horn was appointed as co-lead counsel in In re: Optiver Commodities Litigation, Case No. 08 CV 6842 (LAP) (S.D.N.Y.), a proposed class action involving the alleged manipulation of NYMEX (light sweet crude oil, heating oil and gasoline) futures contracts prices by Optiver US, LLC and other Optiver defendants.  In August 2007, he was appointed as co-lead counsel in In re: Amaranth Natural Gas Commodity Litigation, Case No. 07 Civ. 6377 (SAS) (S.D.N.Y.), a proposed class action involving the manipulation of NYMEX natural gas futures and options contract prices by Amaranth Advisors LLC, one of the largest natural gas hedge funds prior to its widely-publicized collapse in September 2006.  Mr. Horn is also co-lead counsel in In re: Natural Gas Commodity Litigation, Case No. 03 Civ. 6186 (VM) (AJP) (S.D.N.Y.), a case which concerns manipulation of New York Mercantile Exchange (“NYMEX”) Natural Gas futures contracts by multiple market participants through use of false trade reports to industry publications.  Total settlements, following certification of a three year class of NYMEX future traders, of more than $100 million were approved by the Court in 2006 and 2007.  Mr. Horn also helped achieve landmark results in the Sumitomo Copper Litigation, 182 F.R.D. 85 (S.D.N.Y. 1998) (a case involving manipulation of NYMEX copper futures which settled for more than $115 million) and In re Soybean Futures Litigation, 892 F.Supp. 1025 (N.D.Ill. 1995) (a case involving manipulation of Chicago Board of Trade soybean futures contracts which settled for more than $21 million).

Mr. Horn is a graduate of Trinity College (B.A. 1989) and Albany Law School (J.D. 1993). He is admitted to practice in New York, and the bars of the U.S.Court of Appeals for the 2nd and 11th Circuits, and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.