Christopher Kayser

Practice Areas

Complex commnercial litigation in areas of securities, antitrust, and environmental.

Career

Following his years at the Department of Justice, Chris worked for the D.C. office of Baker Botts, LLP, representing clients across the country in white collar criminal matters and complex commercial litigation. In 2006, he returned to his hometown Portland, Oregon, where he has developed a high-stakes commercial litigation practice representing both individual and corporate clients. He has successfully represented large groups of investors seeking to recover their investments in fraudulent securities offerings from national accounting and law firms, defended a multi-national electronics company against allegations of violating antitrust laws, and represented a government agency in a billion dollar environmental allocation process.

Work Highlights

Represented the Oregon Attorney General in a three-week preliminary injunction hearing that blocked the $24 billion merger between Kroger and Albertsons which would have been the largest grocery store merger in U.S. history

Represented the Oregon Attorney General in an antitrust action against one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the U.S., successfully recovering $9.25 million in disgorged profits, penalties, and attorney’s fees

Represented 125 investors who collectively lost more than $50 million in a Ponzi-scheme

Defended multi-national electronics company against allegations of conspiring to fix the prices of electronic components

Won jury trial for client entitled to profit share from weapons parts manufacturing company

Represents government agency in process seeking to allocate multi-billion-dollar remediation costs for the cleanup of a Superfund site

Represented shareholders of water technology company seeking to recover over $10 million

Represented founders and majority shareholders in healthcare company worth over $100 million against failed take-over attempt by private equity firm

Defended a fish processing company in multi-million-dollar antitrust class-action lawsuit; case resolved with plaintiffs dropping all damages claims

Representation of a chemical manufacturer in multi-million-dollar contract action related to dense non-aqueous phase liquid (DNAPL) groundwater contamination and related environmental remediation costs; won partial summary judgment resulting in $3.1 million recovery