Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs
Latham team recognized as appellate court affirms previous decisions against the US Department of Justice's challenge to U.S. Sugar's purchase of Imperial Sugar.
Chris Yates, a partner in Latham & Watkins’ San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices, litigates and tries precedent-setting antitrust cases in courts across the United States.
Mr. Yates regularly counsels and represents clients at the forefront of the sports, technology, travel, and consumer products industries. Drawing on more than two decades of litigation and trial experience, he routinely achieves success for clients facing a variety of cutting-edge antitrust and competition issues, including:
Mr. Yates has achieved success in federal trial courts throughout the country, including New York, Florida, Texas, Illinois, Delaware, and California, and has won appeals before the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and other appellate courts.
Mr. Yates is recognized as a leading antitrust lawyer by: Chambers USA, The Legal 500, Benchmark Litigation, Global Competition Review (GCR), and Lawdragon. Mr. Yates was named a Power Player by Sports Business Journal and a Top California Antitrust Lawyer by The Daily Journal. In recognition of his excellence in Antitrust Litigation, GCR shortlisted Mr. Yates as Litigator of the Year in 2023.
Mr. Yates served as Global Co-Chair of the firm’s Antitrust & Competition Practice from 2010 - 2020.
Mr. Yates has represented:
Latham team recognized as appellate court affirms previous decisions against the US Department of Justice's challenge to U.S. Sugar's purchase of Imperial Sugar.
Mike Egge voted as Dealmaker of the Year for groundbreaking work and his dynamic leadership within Latham and the antitrust bar broadly.
Law360 Named Latham a Competition Group of the Year, thanks to a historical defeat of a FTC in-house merger challenge, defending biotech firm Grail, after its acquisition by Illumina.