Kate Gehl is an antitrust and competition lawyer who provides strategic counsel to clients in the areas of antitrust litigation and investigations. She has handled some of the largest multidistrict cases and antitrust class actions across the country, with some involving damages claims in excess of $1 billion.

Kate works with companies across a wide range of industries, including the innovative technology, manufacturing, sports, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, and health care sectors. Kate is a seasoned litigator with over a decade of experience handling complex, high-stakes cases.  She represents clients before the Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, State Attorneys General and foreign regulators, advising on strategies to address agency scrutiny. Kate defends clients against allegations of price-fixing, market allocation, monopolization, and other antitrust claims, guiding matters from initial inquiry through discovery, dispositive motions and trial. Kate is known for her poise and credibility in the courtroom and as an adept problem-solver outside the courtroom. She listens to her clients’ needs and obtains a full understanding of their business, which provides results. She leads nimble teams with a creative and flexible approach to litigation, proactively identifying and exploring alternative paths to resolution where it aligns with her client’s objectives. Kate’s time as a former federal judicial clerk also makes her uniquely qualified to provide insightful strategic advice on litigation strategy, with an inside perspective.

With a reputation for practical, business-oriented advice, Kate regularly counsels clients on day-to-day antitrust and competition issues. She provides vital guidance relating to product pricing, the Robinson-Patman Act, supply chain relationships, e-commerce, product distribution, commercial agreements, joint ventures, collaborations with competitors, information sharing, participation in trade associations and industry organizations, advertising and marketing, intellectual property (including as to intellectual property licensing practices related to standard essential patents and patent pools), labor and employment, and general compliance. Kate works closely with general counsel, c-suite executives, and legal teams in major companies across the United States. She also collaborates with cross-border local counsel to handle global antitrust compliance matters.

Kate also has particular experience litigating antitrust issues that arise in the context of patent infringement litigation or other disputes involving intellectual property in high-tech industries.  Kate has held numerous leadership positions within the ABA Antitrust Section, currently serving as Chair on its Intellectual Property Committee.  She has represented clients, authored numerous articles and had a number of speaking engagements on antitrust issues surrounding standard essential patents and FRAND obligations.

Parallel to her antitrust litigation practice, Kate maintains a practice representing businesses in complex commercial litigation. She has significant experience in complex electronic discovery and has worked with experts to develop reports and testimony, and she has written briefs and motions at all stages of litigation in federal and state courts across the country.