Kenneth R O'Rourke

Kenneth (Ken) O’Rourke is a partner in the antitrust department at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where his practice focuses on litigating complex cases and high-stakes U.S. and international disputes, as well as defending against government investigations. Ken is based in the firm's Washington, D.C., office with a continuing presence in California. He represents companies pursuing remedies for wrongful conduct by others, as well as defends companies being sued in complex cases.

For more than three decades, Ken has represented established and emerging companies in multi-forum civil litigation, class actions, “bet-the-company” cases, government enforcer investigations, merger litigation, and high-stakes antitrust and intellectual property disputes, including several international matters. His experience includes litigating class actions and other international price-fixing cartel follow-on actions, monopolization and attempted monopolization cases, pending mergers contested by government enforcers and private litigants, IP disputes involving the refusal to license standard essential patents (SEPs) on reasonable and non-discriminatory (RAND) terms, and pharmaceutical antitrust lawsuits alleging delayed market entry of generic drugs due to reverse payment patent settlements.