Ms. Fernández-Silber is an experienced litigator who joined the Radice Law Firm, PC as Of Counsel in 2018. She started her career in the Restructuring and Finance Group at the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York City, where she represented clients on issues relating to bankruptcy, insolvency and creditors’ rights.
Her practice now focuses on antitrust class actions. Recently, Ms. Fernández-Silber was appointed to the four-member steering committee in Reece v. Altria Group, Inc., No. 20-cv-02345 (N.D. Cal.), representing direct purchaser plaintiffs in a suit alleging that an anticompetitive agreement between Juul and Altria caused consumers of Juul products to pay inflated prices.
Ms. Fernandez-Silber is also leading the Firm’s efforts as co-lead counsel for student purchaser plaintiffs in In re Inclusive Access Course Materials Antitrust Litigation, 20-md-2946 (S.D.N.Y.), a case alleging a conspiracy among publishers and retailers to restrict sales of college textbooks to an online subscription format known as “Inclusive Access” in order to eliminate the secondary market for textbooks, foreclose competition, and raise the prices students pay for textbooks.
Ms. Fernández-Silber has taken an active role in a number of other ongoing cases, including In re Intuniv Antitrust Litigation, No. 16-12653 (D. Mass.) (alleging delayed generic entry); In re Generic Pharmaceuticals Pricing Antitrust Litigation, No. 20-md-2724 (E.D.Pa.)(alleging price fixing by generic drug makers); and Olson v. Major League Baseball, et al., No. 20-632 (S.D.N.Y.) (case on behalf of fantasy sports bettors alleging losses due to the baseball cheating scandal).
Ms. Fernández-Silber has a B.A. and M.A. from Yale University, and earned her J.D. from New York University School of Law, where she was a member of the Law Review. She clerked for the Honorable Ann Claire Williams (ret.) of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. She is admitted to practice in New York and Michigan.