Education:

• B.A. Oberlin College
• J.D., New York University

Bar affiliations & court admissions: 

• Bar of the State of New York
• U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
• New York State Bar Association
• New York City Bar Association

Elana Katcher has extensive complex antitrust litigation experience drawn from her work on both the plaintiff and defense sides.  Ms. Katcher began her career in antitrust litigation as an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP where she was a member of the trial team defending Microsoft Corporation against a series of private class actions brought in courts around the country, as well as representing other major defendants in bet-the-company litigation.  

Since 2007, Ms. Katcher has been instrumental in some of Kaplan Fox’s largest cases, including In re Air Cargo Shipping Servs. Antitrust Litig., MDL No. 1775 (E.D.N.Y.), and a successful bellwether trial in Neurontin Marketing, Sales Practices & Products Liability Litig., MDL No. 1629 (D. Mass.). In addition, Ms. Katcher co-drafted a successful opposition to the first Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss in the sprawling Generic Pharmaceutical antitrust actions, In re Propranolol Antitrust Litig., 249 F. Supp. 3d 712 (S.D.N.Y. 2017) (Rakoff, J.), and continues to work on behalf of the Direct Purchaser Plaintiffs in the Generic Pharmaceutical antitrust actions now pending before District Judge Cynthia M. Rufe in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, including as part of the briefing team that recently prevailed against the first tranche of motions to dismiss brought in that litigation.  See In re Generic Pharm. Pricing Antitrust Litig., No. 16-CB-27243, 2018 WL 5003450 (E.D. Pa. Oct. 16, 2018).

In addition, Ms. Katcher represents significant corporate clients, including clients listed on Nasdaq, in individual antitrust actions in Packaged Seafood in which she has recently co-argued a key motion to dismiss before District Judge Janis L. Sammartino, obtaining a significant victory where the court upheld jurisdiction over two foreign defendants. See In re Packaged Seafood Prod. Antitrust Litig., No. 15-MD-2670 JLS (MDD), 2018 WL 4222506 (S.D. Cal. Sept. 5, 2018).  She is currently part of the co-lead team for the direct purchaser class plaintiffs in In re Caustic Soda Antitrust Litigation, 19-cv-00385 (W.D.N.Y.), and is a member of the steering committee representing the indirect reseller plaintiff class in In re Juul Labs, Inc. Antitrust Litigation, 20-cv-02345 (N.D. Ca.).

Prior to Kaplan Fox, she was an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and King & Spalding LLP, where she participated in the defense of major companies, including at trial and in arbitration.