Forest Laboratories Responds To False And Misleading Statements By Carl Icahn

Forest Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: FRX) (“Forest”) today issued the following open letter to all Forest shareholders.

Forest’s Board of Directors continues to recommend that shareholders vote for all 10 of the Company’s highly qualified director nominees on the WHITE proxy card. For information about Forest’s 2012 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, please visit: www.FRX2012annualmeeting.com.

The text of the letter follows:

August 10, 2012

Dear Fellow Shareholders:

In the past few days, Carl Icahn has twisted the facts yet again on two important topics: the industry-standard change of control provisions contained in our licensing joint venture agreements and the actions that Forest has taken to fulfill its commitments to shareholders on corporate governance. We regret that Mr. Icahn is making these false and misleading statements less than a week before our annual meeting in an egregious and desperate attempt to manipulate the results of the election, and we are compelled to set the record straight. Here are the facts.

Industry-Standard Change of Control Provisions

The Cypress agreement to which Icahn refers was filed publicly years ago, and Icahn is the one that caused the delay of which he now complains by refusing the other joint venture agreements that Forest offered to him weeks ago before Icahn chose to proceed to trial. The timing of Forest’s disclosures has been set by the Delaware Chancery Court, according to a schedule that Icahn himself approved, and Forest is complying with its directives.

Forest’s joint venture agreements are not structured to deter a potential acquisition. As Icahn and Ende should know, given their purported pharma experience, change of control provisions in drug licensing agreements are standard and conventional, and they are required by our joint venture partners. These provisions provide an important incentive for potential joint venture partners to entrust Forest with the development and commercialization of proprietary compounds, which are their “crown jewels.” Without these provisions, Forest would not have been able to form the types of partnerships that have enabled it to build one of the most robust pipelines in the industry.

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