Catie Ventura is a litigation partner in Quinn Emanuel’s Washington, D.C., office whose practice focuses on antitrust and competition matters. She has extensive experience in cases representing novel questions of law and complex factual disputes. Clients and co-counsel praise Catie for her depth of antitrust knowledge, her talent at solving complex problems, and her ability to simply communicate complex issues to clients and courts. These skills, and others, have led Catie to be recognized by The Legal 500 for her work in antitrust litigation and merger-related competition issues.
- Allergan
- Belcan
- Constellation Energy
- Geo Specialty Chemicals
- Golden Peanut
- LULAC
- Packaging Corporation of America
- Rosemoor Hotel SRO Tenants’ Union
- Surgical Care Affiliates
- Tenneco, Inc.
- UnitedHealth Group
- Counsel for engineering company in no poach criminal case brought by DOJ against employee. Case dismissed on a motion for directed verdict. Also counsel for same engineering company in related putative antitrust class action. Resulted in favorable settlement for client.
- Counsel for healthcare company in first criminal no poach case filed by DOJ. DOJ voluntarily dismissed the case against client without any fine or penalty.
- Counsel for wine and spirits distributor in monopolization action brought by online alcohol platform. Resulted in favorable resolution for client.
- Counsel for agricultural company in a putative antitrust class action brought by peanut farmers alleging violations of the Sherman Act. Resulted in favorable settlement for client.
- Counsel for auto parts company in a putative antitrust class action brought by direct and indirect purchasers of exhaust systems alleging violations of the Sherman Act. Resulted in favorable settlement for client.
- Counsel for chemical company in a putative antitrust class action brought by purchasers of liquid aluminum sulfate alleging violations of the Sherman Act. Resulted in favorable settlement for client.
- Counsel for healthcare company in litigation brought by the DOJ challenging multi-billion-dollar acquisition of home healthcare company. Deal allowed to close after the parties agreed on a divestiture.
- Counsel for healthcare company in its acquisition of home healthcare company. Full compliance with Second Request issued by the FTC and deal closed without a consent.
- Counsel for various companies in confidential antitrust investigations conducted by the Department of Justice, the European Commission, the Canadian Competition Bureau, the Competition Commission of South Africa, the Brazilian Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) and the Competition Commission of India.
- Advise various companies on antitrust aspects of commercial agreements, sales strategies and HR practices.
- Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Institute of Technology
(J.D., summa cum laude, 2013)- Order of the Coif
- Chicago-Kent Law Review:
- Editor-in-Chief
- Donald J. Novotny Moot Court Scholar
- University of Chicago
(B.A., Economics, 2010)
- The State Bar of Illinois
- The Bar of the District of Columbia
- United States District Court:
- District of Columbia
- District of Maryland
- Northern District of Illinois
- Kirkland & Ellis:
- Litigation Partner, 2019-2026
- Associate, 2013-2019
- Recognized by The Legal 500 U.S. for Antitrust: Civil Litigation/Class Actions: Defense (2025, 2026)
- Volunteer of the Year (2014), Lawyer’s Committee for Better Housing (For work as counsel for the Rosemoor Tenants’ Union in its lawsuit against the Rosemoor Hotel, a single-room-occupancy building on the Near West Side of Chicago, for retaliatory eviction after the tenants reported illegal construction. Resulted in favorable settlement for the tenants’ union.)
- Catie Ventura and Christian Martin, Discharge of Civil Antitrust Liabilities in Bankruptcy, American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division, 101 Practice Series
- Catie Ventura, Safeguards to Minimize the Antitrust Risks Associated with Trade Associations, Antitrust Law, American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division Committee Newsletter, Winter 2017
- Speaker, “Ex parte Communications with Government Agencies,” Federal Bar Association, Chicago Chapter (May 2014, June 2015)