Litigators of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs — Avadel Pharmaceuticals and The Trade Desk
Latham lawyers were honored for securing big victories for Avadel Pharmaceuticals and The Trade Desk.
Andrew Prins represents clients in their most important and complex disputes involving federal administrative agencies and state government regulators.
Andrew focuses on challenges to the legality of government regulatory action that raise novel questions of:
He represents clients as plaintiffs in litigation against the government to invalidate regulatory action, and clients as intervenor-defendants alongside the government to defend the legality of regulatory action that benefits his clients.
Andrew regularly appears before the federal courts in D.C., as well as before trial and appellate courts across the country. Many of his matters involve requests for emergency relief, such as temporary restraining orders, preliminary injunctions, and stays of agency action.
In addition to litigating at trial and on appeal, Andrew provides pre-dispute counseling in regulatory matters pending before agencies that may result in litigation.
He works with clients in a number of highly regulated industries, including pharmaceuticals and life sciences, healthcare, biotechnology, telecommunications, and technology.
He has handled litigation involving many different federal departments and agencies, with particular experience in matters involving the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), against which Andrew has won many precedent-setting victories involving:
Complementing his government-facing practice, Andrew also represents clients in other forms of litigation involving a complex regulatory overlay, including consumer class actions and arbitrations.
A recognized leader at the firm, Andrew serves on the Finance Committee and recently served on the Technology Committee.
Before joining Latham, Andrew served as a judicial law clerk to Judge J.L. Edmondson of the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.
For 10 years prior to practicing law, he served in various senior-level engineering and management roles at a large multinational internet and telecommunications company, where he oversaw network architecture and data security.
Andrew's experience includes:
Latham lawyers were honored for securing big victories for Avadel Pharmaceuticals and The Trade Desk.
Latham litigators won an Administrative Procedure Act case on behalf of SCAN Health Plan over a new plan rating methodology which would have cost them US$250 million in federal funding.
Latham lawyers honored for securing the dismissal of a securities fraud complaint brought against Funko and its former CEO and CFO, and for a win at the D.C. Circuit for United Therapeutics.