Andrew Hatchett

• Appellate counsel for a Fortune 50 insurance company in an appeal before the Third Circuit and a related certified question before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court resolved the certified question in our client’s favor, and the Third Circuit ruled for our client on the merits. 
• Appellate counsel for the largest health carrier in the U.S. in an interlocutory appeal to the Louisiana Court of Appeal. The appellate court reversed the trial court and dismissed antitrust monopolization claims brought against our client.
• Retained as replacement trial counsel for a Canadian generic pharmaceutical company prosecuting antitrust monopolization claims against U.S. and Japanese pharmaceutical companies based on the novel “product hopping” theory. Hired with the close of discovery looming, our team took and defended nearly 40 depositions over 60 days and ultimately developed a factual record that supported multiple pre-trial settlements favorable to our client. 
• Persuaded a Minnesota state court to deny an emergency motion for TRO and dismiss a lawsuit against a client payment systems company.
• Represented 77 former state attorneys general as amici curiae before the U.S. Supreme Court in a brief supporting former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell’s appeal of his convictions for public corruption. The Court vacated McDonnell’s convictions and cited the attorneys general’s brief in its opinion.
• Representing an international generic pharmaceutical company in competitor and consumer class action antitrust lawsuits alleging nondisclosure of essential patents to the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention.
• Persuaded the California Superior Court to dismiss a predatory-pricing antitrust lawsuit against a mobile diagnostic health care provider.
• Representing a Fortune 50 insurance company and third-party administrator in separate class action lawsuits in the Delaware superior court related to unpaid statutory interest.
• Persuaded a Georgia federal court to dismiss RICO class action claims against three major title insurance providers.
• Represented a major automobile insurance company in more than 30 antitrust and RICO cases that were consolidated in an MDL in the Middle District of Florida.
• Represented a Fortune 50 technology company in a trade secrets and antitrust lawsuit in Louisiana state court.
• Counsel to a national bank and international payment card provider in a lawsuit in Panama.
• Trial counsel for a natural gas provider in a lawsuit alleging breach of contract, False Claims Act, and consumer protection act claims.
• Counsel for the world’s largest floor covering manufacturer in multidistrict antitrust litigation related to alleged price-fixing of polyurethane foam products.

Andrew Hatchett is a senior associate in the firm’s Litigation & Trial Practice Group.

Before joining Alston & Bird, Andrew served as a law clerk to the Honorable D. Brooks Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the Honorable L. Scott Coogler of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.

Andrew received his J.D., summa cum laude, from the University of Alabama, where he served as an executive editor for the Alabama Law Review. He also competed as a member of the school’s moot court program, winning the best brief award in the Campbell Moot Court Competition and awards for best brief and best overall oralist at the National Criminal Procedure Tournament in San Diego. Upon graduation, Andrew received the Dean M. Leigh Harrison Award, the law school’s highest academic honor, and was inducted into both the Order of the Coif and the Order of the Barristers.

Andrew received his B.B.A. in accounting from Baylor University, where he earned the Alpha Kappa Psi Award for the highest ranking student in the Hankamer School of Business and was named the most outstanding undergraduate accounting student by accounting faculty. 

Bar Admissions

• Georgia
• Texas

Education

• The University of Alabama (J.D., 2012)
• Baylor University (B.B.A., 2008)

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