Teva accuses former executive of siphoning trade secrets to her rival CEO boyfriend

Fierce Pharma ------- As if Israel’s Teva didn’t have enough troubles on its plate—what with patent losses, pay-for-delay lawsuits, an ongoing CEO search and more—it’s now tangled in a full-blown soap opera with a former U.S. employee. In a lawsuit filed in a federal court in Pennsylvania, the drug giant is alleging that its ex-chief of regulatory affairs for its American generics business passed trade secrets to her boyfriend, who happened to be the CEO of generics industry rival Apotex. But it's far more than two lovers engaging in pillow talk about generic pills, Teva claims. The lawsuit alleges that, over a period of about two years ending in 2016, Teva employee Barinder Sandhu copied company files onto flash drives and passed them to Apotex CEO Jeremy Desai. Sandhu was fired in October 2016, according to the suit, which also lists Desai and Apotex as defendants. To learn more click on the picture below to read the article.