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BRIAN D. BROOKS joined the New York – Midtown Park Avenue office of Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP in 2019, specializing in antitrust, consumer, and securities litigation. His current cases include In re Zetia Antitrust Litigation, No. 18-md-2836 (E.D. Va.); Staley, et al. v. Gilead Sciences, Inc., et al., No. 3:19-cv-02573-EMC (N.D. Cal.); and In re: Seroquel XR (Extended Release Quetiapine Fumarate) Litigation, No. 1:19-cv-08296-CM (S.D.N.Y.).

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Brooks was an associate at Murray, Frank & Sailer, LLP in New York, where his practice was focused on antitrust, consumer, and securities matters, and later a partner at Smith, Segura & Raphael, LLP, in New York and Louisiana. During his tenure at Smith Segura & Raphael, LLP, Mr. Brooks represented direct purchasers in numerous antitrust matters, including In re: Suboxone (Buprenorphine Hydrochloride and Naloxone) Antitrust Litigation, No. 2:13-md-02445 (E.D. Pa.), In re: Niaspan Antitrust Litigation, No. 2:13-md-02460 (E.D. Pa.), and In re: Novartis & Par Antitrust Litigation (Exforge), No. 18-cv-4361 (S.D.N.Y.), and was an active member of the trial team for the class in In re: Nexium (Esomeprazole) Antitrust Litigation, No. 12-md-2409 (D. Mass.), the first post-Actavis reverse-payment case to be tried to verdict. He was also an active member of the litigation teams in the King Drug Company of Florence, Inc. et al. v. Cephalon, Inc., et al. (Provigil), No. 2:06-cv-1797 (E.D. Pa.); In re: Prograf Antitrust Litigation, No. 1:11-md-2242 (D. Mass.) and In re: Miralax antitrust matters, which collectively settled for more than $600 million, and a member of the litigation teams in In re: Relafen Antitrust Litigation, No. 01-cv-12239 (D. Mass.); In re: Buspirone Antitrust Litigaiton, MDL Dkt. No. 1410 (S.D.N.Y.); In re: Remeron Antitrust Litigation, No. 02-2007 (D.N.J.); In re: Terazosin Hydrochloride Antitrust Litigation, No. 99-MDL-1317 (S.D. Fla.); and In re K-Dur Antitrust Litigation, No. 10-cv-1652 (D.N.J.).

Mr. Brooks received his B.A. from Northwestern State University of Louisiana in 1998 and his J.D. from Washington and Lee School of Law in 2002, where he was a staff writer for the Environmental Law Digest and clerked for the Alderson Legal Assistance Program, handling legal matters for inmates of the Federal Detention Center in Alderson, West Virginia. He is admitted to practice in all state courts in New York and Louisiana, as well as the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the Eastern and Western Districts of Louisiana.