Kristen Seeger

Practice Areas

KRISTEN SEEGER is the co-leader of the firm’s global Commercial Litigation and Disputes practice and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. She focuses her practice on the successful resolution of shareholder-related disputes, including shareholder demands, derivative litigation, and securities class actions; complex commercial disputes; and the defense of SEC enforcement matters. Kristen has provided critical advice to some of the world’s leading companies as they respond to shareholder demands and government investigations, and she conducts investigations for boards and special committees on high-profile and sensitive matters. She has successfully defended corporations, officers and directors, financial institutions, and accounting firms in complex, high-stakes litigation in courts throughout the country. Clients regularly turn to her as a trusted and strategic advisor across a spectrum of business and governance challenges, involving her in their most complex and weighty issues.

Kristen is deeply involved in both firm and civic life. Within Sidley, in addition to her Executive Committee and global practice leader roles, Kristen is firmwide co-chair of the Committee for the Evaluation and Compensation of Associates and serves on the Inclusion Committee. She serves on the board of the American Red Cross of Greater Chicago, the board of Leadership Greater Chicago, and is the past board chair and current emeritus board member of Mujeres Latinas en Acción. Kristen also is a Leadership Greater Chicago Fellow and a Daniel Burnham Fellow (Chicago senior executive cohort).