Atlanta Boston Dallas London Miami Minneapolis New York Oakland Philadelphia Washington, DC PRINT PDF RELATED PRACTICE LINES Antitrust and Unfair Competition Antitrust Counseling & Compliance Indirect and Direct Purchaser Class Actions International Competition CORPORATE PLAINTIFF AFFIRMATIVE RECOVERY Zelle attorneys were at the forefront of the affirmative recovery “opt-out” practice as it was first developing. In 1999, Zelle attorneys filed individual Sherman Act claims on behalf of over 150 individual plaintiffs in the In re Vitamins Antitrust Litigation, MDL No. 1285, and ultimately secured them settlements of $2 billion. Since then, our team has successfully represented, through trial, numerous individual plaintiffs that have opted out of the class action to aggressively pursue single damages in the tens to hundreds of millions each. Zelle’s clients operate across a broad range of markets, including packaged foods, paper products, industrial products, financial instruments, and pharmaceuticals. With a robust corporate recovery practice, we help clients recover losses suffered because of antitrust violations by their suppliers, competitors or other industry participants. We identify and assess the anticompetitive conduct, determine the scope of a client’s injury and the value of a potential claim, and recommend strategies to maximize recovery. In some cases, that might mean monitoring an existing class action and working with the claims administrator to maximize the value of the client’s claim in the settlement distribution process. In other situations, we might recommend that clients file individual actions (by “opting out” of the class action) when it is cost-effective to do so. The opt-out plaintiffs we represent typically recover two to three times what they would have recovered had they stayed in the class action and shared in the class recovery. Representative Matters United HealthCare Services, Inc. v. Actavis Holdco U.S., Inc., et al., No. 2:19-cv-00629-CMR. Represents United HealthCare Services, Inc. in two individual antitrust matters against the makers of more than 130 generic pharmaceutical drugs, alleging a widespread price-fixing and market allocation conspiracy; this matter has been consolidated with In re: Generic Pharmaceuticals Pricing Antitrust Litigation, MDL No. 2724. In re LIBOR-Based Financial Instruments Antitrust Litigation, MDL No. 2262, No. 1:11-md-02262 (S.D.N.Y.). Representing Freddie Mac and the FDIC as Receiver for 39 Closed Banks and serves as liaison counsel for more than two dozen DAPs). Freddie Mac and the FDIC allege, among other things, that defendants’ horizontal conspiracy reduced product quality in the market for interest-rate benchmarks. El Pollo Loco, Inc. v. Tyson Foods, Inc., et al., No. 1:20-cv-01943. Represents El Pollo Loco, Inc. in an individual antitrust matter against the nation’s major broiler chicken suppliers, alleging a capacity-reduction and price-fixing conspiracy; this matter has been consolidated with In re Broiler Chicken Antitrust Litigation, No. 1:16-cv-08637. United HealthCare Services, Inc. v. Celgene Corp., 0:20-cv-00686-DSD-ECW. Represents United HealthCare Services, Inc. in an individual antitrust matter against Celgene, alleging it engaged in generic exclusion tactics to maintain its monopoly pricing of the drugs Revlimid and Thalomid. + See More Representative Matters Our Team James Robertson Martin jmartin@zelle.com (202) 899-4101 Judith A. Zahid jzahid@zelle.com (415) 633-1916 + View More Attorneys On This Team Events MAR 11 Jennifer Duncan Hackett to Present Webinar on Opting Out of Class Actions March 11, 2021 DEC 8 Heather Rankie to Present ABA Webinar on Investigating and Litigating Price Fixing Cases December 8, 2020 ©2021 Zelle LLP Home | Privacy & Cookie Policy | Disclaimer | Site Map FIRM PEOPLE PRACTICE NEWS CAREERS CONTACT We use cookies on our website to enhance and improve your browsing experience. If you continue to use our website, we assume that this is acceptable to you. To understand more about how we use cookies, or to change your preferences and browser settings, please see our Privacy and Cookie Policy. CLOSE