Catie Ventura

Partner Litigation

Washington, D.C. +1 202 389 5907

Catie Ventura

Overview

Catie Ventura is a litigation partner in Kirkland’s Washington, D.C., office whose practice focuses on antitrust and competition matters and other complex litigation. She has extensive experience in cases presenting novel questions of law and complex factual disputes.

With regards to antitrust matters, Catie’s practice includes representing corporations with respect to alleged criminal and civil antitrust violations and representing clients regarding antitrust aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Many of these matters are non-public because the government-entity elected not to pursue the matter beyond the investigation stage.

Catie’s complex commercial litigation practice covers business torts, mass torts and products liability matters. Catie’s experience in structuring large scale, novel settlements has led her to work with numerous companies as settlement counsel to resolve complex litigation matters.

Antitrust Matters

  • Counsel for Belcan in no poach criminal case brought by DOJ against employee. Case dismissed on a motion for directed verdict. Also counsel for Belcan in related putative antitrust class action. Resulted in favorable settlement for Belcan.
  • Counsel for Surgical Care Affiliates in first criminal no poach case filed by DOJ. DOJ voluntarily dismissed the case against SCA without any fine or penalty.
  • Counsel for Golden Peanut in a putative antitrust class action brought by peanut farmers alleging violations of the Sherman Act. Resulted in favorable settlement for Golden Peanut.
  • Counsel for Tenneco, Inc. in a putative antitrust class action brought by direct and indirect purchasers of exhaust systems alleging violations of the Sherman Act. Resulted in favorable settlement for Tenneco.
  • Counsel for Geo Specialty Chemicals in a putative antitrust class action brought by purchasers of liquid aluminum sulfate alleging violations of the Sherman Act. Resulted in favorable settlement for Geo.
  • Counsel for various companies in confidential antitrust investigations conducted by the Department of Justice, the European Commission, the Canadian Competition Bureau, the Competition Commission of South Africa, the Brazilian Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) and the Competition Commission of India.
  • Advise various companies on antitrust aspects of commercial agreements, sales strategies and HR practices.
  • Counsel for UnitedHealth Group in its acquisitions of LHC Group. Full compliance with Second Request issued by the FTC and deal closed without a consent.

Other Matters

  • In re National Prescription Opiate Litigation: Counsel for Allergan in numerous lawsuits nationwide in federal and state court brought by State AGs, counties and municipalities related to the marketing of opioids.
  • Settlement counsel for various companies related to mass tort and large-scale product liability matters.

Law Student ExternHonorable Matthew KennellyUnited States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Law Student ExternHonorable Lee PrestonCircuit Court of Cook County

Rosemoor Hotel SRO Tenants’ Union v. Rosemoor Hotel (Illinois): Counsel for the Rosemoor Tenants’ Union in its lawsuit against the Rosemoor Hotel, a single-room-occupancy building on the Near West Side of Chicago, for retaliatory eviction after the tenants reported illegal construction. Resulted in favorable settlement for the tenants’ union.

Hernandez v. LULAC et al. (Illinois): Counsel for LULAC, a national Hispanic non-profit organization, in civil litigation based in breach of contract and fraud.

More

Thought Leadership

Publications

Catie Ventura and Christian Martin, Discharge of Civil Antitrust Liabilities in Bankruptcy, American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division, 101 Practice Series

Catie Ventura, Safeguards to Minimize the Antitrust Risks Associated with Trade Associations, Antitrust Law, American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division Committee Newsletter, Winter 2017

Robert Greenspoon & Catherine Cottle (n/k/a Ventura), Don’t Assume A Can Opener: Confronting Patent Economic Theories with Licensing Enforcement Reality, 12 Colum. Sci. & Tech. L. Rev. 194 (2011)

Seminars

Speaker, “Ex parte Communications with Government Agencies,” Federal Bar Association, Chicago Chapter (May 2014, June 2015)

Recognition

Recipient, Kirkland’s Pro Bono Service Award (2013–2018)

Volunteer of the Year (2014), Lawyer’s Committee for Better Housing (for work on Rosemoor Hotel SRO Tenants’ Union v. Rosemoor Hotel)

Memberships & Affiliations

Children’s Law Center, Advisory Board (2016–2018)

Moneythink, Young Professionals Board (2013–2015, Vice Chair 2014–2015)

Public Interest Law Initiative (PILI) Board of Directors, PILI Fellow Representative (2013–2015)

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2013Illinois
  • 2016District of Columbia

Education

  • Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Institute of TechnologyJ.D.summa cum laude2013

    Order of the Coif

    Editor-in-Chief, Chicago-Kent Law Review

    Donald J. Novotny Moot Court Scholar

  • University of ChicagoB.A., Economics2010