Katherine Rocco

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Katherine (Kate) Rocco is the Co-Chair of Latham’s New York Litigation & Trial Department and is a partner in the firm’s Antitrust & Competition Practice.

Kate is a nationally recognized leader in the antitrust bar who regularly leads clients through their most complex antitrust matters, including by securing clearances from the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for high-stakes mergers, and defending companies in a wide range of antitrust litigations, investigations, and criminal cartel matters.

In her practice spanning nearly two decades, Kate has advised private and public companies on more than US$200 billion worth of transactions and hundreds of individual matters. She has litigated multiple matters through trial and appeal and appeared before numerous agencies including the European Commission.

Kate’s broad industry experience encompasses semiconductors, consumer products, life sciences, sports, entertainment, social media, healthcare, financial services, agriculture, and technology.

Kate currently serves on the board of the Legal Aid Society and has an active pro bono practice. For nearly a decade, Kate served on the Civil Rights Committee of the New York City Bar Association, including by serving as an independent legal observer at the Guantanamo Bay military tribunals in Cuba in 2012 and 2014, and by preparing amicus briefs for the Supreme Court of the United States on issues like warrantless wiretapping.

During law school, Kate was an editor for the Fordham Law Review and interned for Judge Shira A. Scheindlin (SDNY). She was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship in 2005 (Malaysia) and served as an intern at The White House in 2002.