Alcon minority shareholder litigation Beginning on January 7, 2010, shareholder clas
s action complaints relating to the Alcon transactions announced on Ja
nuary 4, 2010, were filed against Novartis AG and others by minority sharehol
ders of Alcon, Inc. These actions were filed in the SDNY, in the US Federal District Courts for the East
ern District of New York (EDNY) an ...[+++]d the Northern District of Texas (NDTX) and in several Texas state courts.