Karina Kosharskyy

• Name In re Foreign Exchange Benchmark Rates Antitrust Litigation, 
  No. 13-cv-07789 (S.D.N.Y.).
• Type Antitrust, Commodities
• Status Settled
• Special fiduciary representation for the exchange-based class for a putative class of participants who traded futures and options in the FX market. The case has already resulted in partial settlements of more than $2.3 billion.

• Name In re Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) Antitrust Litigation, 
  MDL No. 1917 (N.D. Cal.). 
• Type Antitrust
• Status Settled
• KM is one of the core firms in an indirect purchaser antitrust litigation. The case resulted in settlements on behalf of end payers totaling $576.75 million. Specifically, the Special Master in the CRT litigation noted that, “Kirby played an integral role in this case and assumed significant risk . . . Kirby’s work was at a very high level [and] Kirby’s work greatly benefited the Class.”

• Name In re LIBOR-Based Financial Instruments Antitrust Litigation,
  No. 11-md-02262 (S.D.N.Y.). 
• Type Antitrust, Commodities
• Status Settled
• KM acted as court-appointed co-liaison counsel for all class actions in the multi-district litigation and co-lead counsel for exchange-based class in the high-profile In re Libor-Based Financial Instruments Antitrust Litigation and FTC Capital GMBH et al. v. Credit Suisse Group AG et al. alleging the fixing of prices of a benchmark interest rate.  The case resulted in settlements totaling $190.45 million, which combined represent the largest recovery in a “futures-only” commodities class action litigation.

• Name Microsoft Antitrust Cases
• Type Antitrust
• Status Settled
• Co-lead counsel on behalf of classes of indirect purchasers in connection with antitrust proceedings against Microsoft. The litigations resulted in settlements totaling nearly a billion dollars for consumers in the states of New York, Florida, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Minnesota (where the litigation proceeded to trial). More recently, KM served as consulting and advisory counsel to Canadian lead counsel based on the firm’s co-lead roles in the U.S. Microsoft cases. The Canadian action resulted in a settlement of $395 million.