Phil Iovieno is the Co-Chair of Cadwalader’s Global Litigation Group. He is also co-head of the firm’s Antitrust Litigation Group. His practice is focused on representing plaintiffs and defendants in antitrust and other complex commercial litigation. Iovieno has extensive experience in federal and state courts throughout the country, including having led or co-led multiple jury trials through verdict. Iovieno’s current clients include, among others, the following companies: Costco Wholesale, Kraft Heinz, Target, McDonald’s, Fortress, BJ’s Wholesale Club, Wendy’s, AngioDynamics, Aramark, Restaurant Depot, Darden Restaurants, and Papa John’s.
Iovieno is an active member of the community. He has handled a variety of pro bono cases, including representing multiple widows before the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund and other pro bono litigants in federal and state court. Iovieno and his brother established The Frank and Rosemary Iovieno Caring for Children Foundation, a charitable foundation that, for the last 20 years, has provided substantial monetary assistance annually to hundreds of children throughout New York and Massachusetts from economically challenged families who suffer from life-threatening illnesses. He is on the Board of the Beverwyck Lacrosse Club, which provides training, mentoring and academic tutoring to hundreds of underprivileged boys and girls in the New York Capital Region, and he actively supports the WGA’s Caddie Scholarship Fund.
Prior to joining Cadwalader, Iovieno was a partner at Boies Schiller Flexner. He received his J.D. from Albany Law School of Union University, where he was Articles Editor of the Albany Law Review, and his B.A., magna cum laude, from Siena College.
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On the plaintiff side of the “v,” Iovieno has recovered more than $2 billion for various corporate clients who were the victims of price-fixing cartels and other antitrust violations. Representative matters include:
- Achieving total settlements of more than $500 million for 12 corporate opt-out plaintiffs who were victims of price-fixing in the market for LCD panels, exceeding 150 percent of the plaintiffs’ damage claims and more than five times what they would have recovered from the class action;
- Achieving total settlements of more than $225 million for nine corporate opt-out plaintiffs who were victims of price-fixing in the market for cathode ray tubes, exceeding 150 percent of the plaintiffs’ damage claims and more than five times what they would have recovered from the class action;
- Currently representing a group of 16 opt-out plaintiffs with tens of billions of purchases in antitrust price-fixing litigation against the major chicken suppliers;
- Currently representing a group of 13 opt-out plaintiffs with tens of billions of purchases in antitrust price-fixing litigation against the major pork suppliers;
- Currently representing a group of 10 opt-out plaintiffs with tens of billions of purchases in antitrust price-fixing litigation against the major beef suppliers, and serving as court-appointed liaison counsel for all opt-out plaintiffs in that action;
- Currently representing Rumble in an antitrust monopolization case against Google;
- Currently representing BJ’s Wholesale Club and others in an antitrust monopolization case against Keurig Green Mountain;
- Represented a group of 3,700 retail pharmacies as opt-out plaintiffs in a federal antitrust action against drug manufacturers, achieving settlements far in excess of what they would have received from the class; and
- Winning a substantial jury verdict in Los Angeles federal court for a nationally known mystery writer in a Lanham Act action against a major publishing house.
On the defense side, Iovieno has obtained dismissals of a wide variety of antitrust and other claims brought against Fortune 500, private corporations, and non-profit institutions. Representative matters include:
- Successfully defending the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in a case alleging the violation of various antitrust laws, achieving the voluntary dismissal of all claims for no compensation after more than three years of litigation;
- Representing AT&T Corporation in its opposition to the federal government’s settlement of the United States v. Microsoft case;
- Successfully defending AT&T Corporation/SBC Communications against antitrust claims alleging monopolization involving its payphone business;
- Winning summary judgment for Philip Morris Inc., dismissing all claims that its wholesale distribution programs violated the antitrust laws; and
- Successfully representing DuPont on DOJ’s grand jury investigation into its research into and use of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA).
