Troy A. Stram

• Representing a major generic pharmaceutical company asserting antitrust and breach of contract claims against the branded manufacturer for steps taken to block generic entry.
• Trial counsel for a Fortune 500 global communications company in a standard essential patent licensing dispute.
• Represented multiple Fortune 500 food and beverage manufacturers and distributers in national product labeling class actions.
• Obtained regulatory approval for LHC Group Inc.’s $5.4 billion acquisition by UnitedHealth Group after counselling client through Second Request by Federal Trade Commission.
• Represented a cybersecurity technology company in arbitration asserting breach of contract claims against a reseller and defended against counterclaims worth hundreds of millions of dollars with favorable results for the client.
• Counsel for a major generic pharmaceutical company in a consumer class action alleging antitrust violations based on nondisclosure of essential patents to the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention. (M.D.Tenn.).
• Defended a major pharmaceutical company in a Department of Justice investigation into alleged price fixing and market allocation in the generic pharmaceutical industry.
•  Trial counsel defending a major insurance company in a certified RICO class action lawsuit where the claimed damages were approximately $9 billion; the case settled for less than 3 percent of the damages after a jury was empanelled. (S.D.Ill.).

Troy Stram is a senior associate in the Litigation & Trial Practice Group. He represents clients in a wide range of complex litigation and arbitration involving commercial disputes, antitrust, RICO, and consumer-protection statutes,  with a particular focus on the pharmaceutical and food and beverage industries. Troy represents and advises clients through DOJ criminal investigations and advises clients on antitrust issues related to joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions, including filings under the HSR Act and substantive merger reviews by the Federal Trade Commission.

Troy is active in the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Section of Antitrust Law and serves on the Long-Range Planning Committee.

Troy earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Georgia School of Law. He served as an editorial board member of the Georgia Law Review and was awarded Best Oralist in the Georgia’s Intrastate Moot Court Competition. Troy was also inducted into the Order of the Coif.

Bar Admissions

• Georgia

Education

• University of Georgia (J.D., 2017)
• Johns Hopkins University (M.S., 2014)
• Pennsylvania State University (B.A., B.S., 2014)