Savient Pharmaceuticals Announces Dismissal of Lawsuit

Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

today announced that the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has dismissed the Class Action originally filed on November 25, 2008, and captioned Richard Sagall vs. Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al., against the Company and two of its former officers. The suit alleged that the Company made false and misleading statements relating to the GOUT1 and GOUT2 phase 3 clinical trials and that the Company failed to disclose in a timely manner serious adverse events which occurred in five patients in these trials. The Company and the other named defendants had filed a motion to dismiss the complaint in June 2009.