Forest Laboratories Issues Statement on Icahn Letter

Forest Laboratories, Inc.

today issued the following statement in response to a letter it received from Carl C. Icahn: “We regret that Mr. Icahn has resorted once again to his tired playbook designed for maximum distortion, distraction and litigation rather than engaging constructively with the Company. Mr. Icahn continues to ignore the substantial progress Forest has made over the past year, including the launches of Teflaro, Daliresp and Viibryd in 2011 and the filing of NDAs for aclidinium and linaclotide, which we expect will be approved in the coming months. Instead, Mr. Icahn is simply recycling arguments that were rejected last year by the vast majority of Forest shareholders, and has nominated a director slate led by Eric Ende, who received the lowest number of votes of any of the fourteen nominees to Forest's board last year. While we remain prepared to engage in a reasonable dialogue with Mr. Icahn, we think most people see through his attempt to reinvent himself as a ‘governance guru.'