Mr Sean Fahey > Troutman Pepper > Philadelphia, United States > Lawyer Profile
Troutman Pepper Offices
3000 Two Logan Square, Eighteenth and Arch Streets
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103-2799
PENNSYLVANIA
United States
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Mr Sean Fahey
Work Department
Health Sciences Department
Position
Sean Fahey is the chair of the firm’s Health Sciences Litigation Practice. He is a first-chair litigator who defends companies in complex, multidistrict products liability and health care litigation. He represents several of the largest pharmaceutical, medical device, and life science companies in their high-stakes cases, and also serves as strategic settlement counsel. Sean serves clients in other industries such as building materials, energy, automotive, and food and beverage. He often handles parallel litigation, regulatory investigations and congressional hearings.
Memberships
Executive Officer and Past President, Villanova University School of Law Alumni Association. Admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Education
J.D. 1994 Villanova University School of Law; B.A. 1991 Villanova University (Political Science and Philosophy).
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
Troutman Pepper is well-positioned to handle major product liability cases in courts throughout the country. The team, which has a particularly strong presence out of Philadelphia, combines deep industry knowledge with procedural and strategic smarts, ensuring that pharma and medical device companies are effectively represented throughout the litigation process. As well as regularly being engaged as national and trial counsel, the firm has a ‘particular strength in the strategic resolution side of mass torts’ and is consequently regularly appointed as national settlement counsel on MDLs and class actions. Although he is also an accomplished litigator, Sean Fahey ‘s ‘greatest asset lies in the strategic resolution space’, where he is praised for his ability to ‘work well with plaintiffs to reach a resolution for a fair price’. Fahey heads up the health sciences litigation practice that also includes ‘first-rate litigator’ Barry Boise and Ronni Fuchs, who ‘is very good at handling the science issues and working with experts’. All named practitioners are based in Philadelphia.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Government > State attorneys general
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Insurance > Advice to insurers
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Finance > Project finance
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Energy > Energy litigation: electric power
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings