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Mary E. Bartkus

Special Counsel

New York City

+1 (212) 837-6736

mary.bartkus@hugheshubbard.com
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Mary E. Bartkus served as Executive Director and Senior Counsel, International Litigation for Merck & Co., Inc. She has represented Merck in matters before government agencies, courts and other tribunals throughout the world in product liability, antitrust, and other complex matters including international arbitration, class, representative, group and cross-border litigation. She is a Master of the Bench and a Director of the John C. Lifland American Inn of Court, an Inn focused on intellectual property and federal practice, and a member of the panel of arbitrators of the International Centre for Dispute Resolution, the international division of the American Arbitration Association. Before joining Merck in 1995, Mary was in private practice, concentrating on intellectual property, antitrust, unfair competition, business tort, and other complex litigation in the federal courts. Please see Mary’s CV here.

Highlighted Publications and Presentations

  • Bartkus, Mary E., Lectures on the History of the Global Vioxx Litigation, Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Law, Budapest, Fall Semester 2019
  • New York Arbitration Week, AAA-ICDR International Arbitration Program Speaker, The In-House Counsel’s Roundtable – International Arbitration, November 2019
  • Bartkus, Mary E., Policy Brief, The Social Cost of Pharmaceutical Mass Tort Litigation (July 5, 2019), The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society, available at https://www.fljs.org/content/s...
  • Bartkus, Mary E., The Cost to Society of Pharmaceutical Mass Tort Litigation, lecture for the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, on June 11, 2019. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3402...
  • Arbitrating Domestic and International Life Sciences Disputes, Moderator, Fireside Chat: The In-House Perspective on Arbitrating Life Sciences Disputes, May 1, 2019, Philadelphia PA.
  • The New Hungarian Arbitration Act from the Perspective of a US International Dispute Resolution Practitioner, paper presented at Hungary’s New Arbitration Law in an International Context, ELTE Law, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, January 2019, in A kereskedelmi választottbíróság évkönyve 2018 (János Burai-Kovács szerk., 2019), at 373, 373-380 [Commercial Arbitration Yearbook 2018 (János Burai-Kovács ed., 2019), at 373, 373-380]
  • Six Class Action Lawsuits for 16 Microliters, Bartkus, Mary E. and Jampel, Henry D., Ophthalmology Glaucoma, Issue 2, pp. 85-87 (September – October 2018), available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ogla...
  • Bartkus, Mary E., Six Class Actions for 16 Microliters: Eye Drop Litigation Reopens in New Jersey, Is Dismissed in Massachusetts, and Is on Appeal to the First Circuit. Hedging and Forum Shopping. A Media Rush to Judgment. (February 13, 2018). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3123...
  • Injunctions, in “New Jersey Federal Civil Procedure,” and annual supplements, New Jersey Law Journal Books, 1999 – 2014
  • Globalization of Class Actions with Products at the Forefront, International Association of Defense Counsel Mid-Year Meeting, Program Speaker, February 2012
  • Competition Policy in the Pharmaceutical Sector, Article 82 EC: Can It Be Applied To Control Sales by Pharmaceutical Manufacturers to Wholesalers?, with Lawyers Working Group, published by European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations, November 2004
  • Pharmaceutical Product Market Definition, Competition Policy in the Pharmaceutical Sector, Program Speaker, Conférence Bleue, European Lawyers’ Conference on Pharmaceutical and Health Care Affairs, Brussels, October 2004

Highlighted Activities, Recognitions, and Appointments

  • AV Preeminent® Peer Review Rating, Martindale Hubbell®
  • Master of the Bench, Co-Director, John C. Lifland American Inn of Court
  • The Johns Hopkins University Wilmer Eye Institute Board of Governors
  • European Justice Forum
  • Life Sciences Advisory Council, AAA-ICDR
  • International Bar Association
  • American Bar Association

Court Admissions

  • United States Supreme Court
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
  • United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
  • United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
  • United States District Court for the District of New Jersey

Highlighted Matters

  • Defense of complex litigation including pharmaceutical product cross-border class, group, and other multi-party litigation in many jurisdictions across countries on six continents
  • Resolution of class, group, and other multi-party product liability litigation and claims in countries on four continents
  • Lead counsel on pharmaceutical in-licensing transactions and on joint venture and licensing relationships; lead in-house counsel on an international multi-jurisdictional joint venture transaction and on the defense and implementation of a pharmaceutical inventory management system in the European Union

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In SSRN: Dispute Resolution Provisions in Life Sciences Agreements
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James H. Boykin and Mary E. Bartkus Appointed to ICDR Panel of Arbitrators
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Special Counsel Mary Bartkus Gives Lecture and Publishes Paper on 'The Cost to Society of Pharmaceutical Mass Tort Litigation'
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Celebrating International Women's Day
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Six Class Actions for 16 Microliters: A Case Study
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International Litigator Mary Bartkus Joins Hughes Hubbard From Merck & Co.
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Education
  • Rutgers University School of Law, J.D., 1980, Adjutant Law Clerk to United States District Judge H. Curtis Meanor, United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, Spring and Summer 1979
  • Kean College of New Jersey , B.A., 1977, Magna cum laude
Bar Admissions
  • New Jersey
  • New York
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Antitrust & Competition
Arbitration
Class Actions
Life Sciences
Litigation
Product Liability
Regulatory Compliance

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