American Antitrust Institute (AAI) to Honor 12 Berger Montague Lawyers at the 2025 Antitrust Enforcement Awards

PHILADELPHIA, PA – Berger Montague is proud to announce that 12 of its antitrust lawyers will be recognized for their achievements at the 2025 American Antitrust Institute (AAI) Awards. These antitrust lawyers will be recognized for their work in the following cases: Le v. Zuffa, LLC,  In re Broiler Chicken Grower Antitrust Litigation, and Innovative Health LLC v. Biosense Webster, Inc. The awards will be presented at the AAI Awards Night in Washington, D.C. on November 6, 2025.

The following Berger Montague lawyers will be honored:

Le v. Zuffa, LLC

Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement in Private Law Practice: Eric L. Cramer, Michael Dell’Angelo, Joshua P. Davis, Patrick F. Madden, and Rob Maysey

Berger Montague, as Co-Lead Class Counsel, achieved a $375 million settlement for UFC fighters in the Le v. Zuffa, LLC antitrust class action. The distribution of the settlement fund is poised to deliver substantial compensation to hundreds of former UFC fighters. 1,088 of 1,121 eligible class members have made claims to receive compensation—a staggering 97% participation rate. The average recovery per Class member exceeds $200,000. The Plaintiffs in the Le Action allege that former UFC fighter class members were victims of the UFC’s illegal scheme to eliminate competition among promoters in the sport of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), and that as a result, the UFC suppressed fighter compensation well below competitive levels.

In Re: Broiler Chicken Grower Antitrust Litigation

Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement in Private Law Practice: Eric L. Cramer, Daniel Walker, Patrick F. Madden, Michaela Wallin, David Langer, and Hope Brinn

Berger Montague, as Co-Lead Class Counsel, negotiated $169 million in settlements from five chicken processing companies for a class of contract chicken farmers (also called “growers”) in a pay suppression case. Plaintiffs had alleged that the major chicken processing companies conspired to suppress the growers’ pay by illegally sharing confidential grower compensation data and illegally conspiring not to recruit each other’s growers. The settlement is the largest ever for growers against chicken companies.   

Innovative Health LLC v. Biosense Webster, Inc.

Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement in Private Law Practice: Joshua P. Davis, David Langer, Kyla Gibboney, Matt Summers, and Julie Pollock

Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement by A Young Lawyer: Matt Summers

After this antitrust case was dismissed at summary judgment, Berger Montague persuaded the Ninth Circuit to reverse on appeal. Berger Montague and its co-counsel then helped obtain a rare post-trebled jury verdict of $442 million followed by landmark injunctive relief. The Firm’s client, Plaintiff Innovative Health, LLC, reprocesses catheters used in the most common heart procedures, reducing the costs to provide essential medical care. The jury found that defendant, Biosense Webster, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, manufactures the dominant system for those cardiac procedures and used a tie and other anticompetitive conduct to foreclose Innovative and other reprocessors from the market in violation of the antitrust laws.

Berger Montague is one of the nation’s preeminent law firms focusing on complex civil litigation, class actions, and mass torts. With more than $2.4 billion in 2025 post-trial judgments alone, the Firm is a leader in the fields of complex litigation, antitrust, consumer protection, defective products, environmental law, employment law, securities, and whistleblower cases, among many other practice areas. For over 55 years, Berger Montague has played leading roles in precedent-setting cases and has recovered over $50 billion for its clients and the classes they have represented. Berger Montague is headquartered in Philadelphia and has offices in Chicago; Malvern, PA; Minneapolis; San Diego; San Francisco; Toronto, Canada; Washington, DC, and Wilmington, DE.