Partner
Katherine (Kate) Rocco is the Co-Chair of Latham’s New York Litigation & Trial Department and is a partner in the firm’s Global 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$150 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 is routinely recognized for her antitrust work, including by Chambers, Global Competition Review, Lawdragon, The Legal 500, Super Lawyers, Who’s Who Legal, and the NY Law Journal.
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.
A selection of Kate’s matters include representing:
*Matter handled prior to joining Latham
Global elite Antitrust & Competition Practice wins three team awards and earns an additional nine finalist nods.
In the leading competition publication’s annual review of the strongest antitrust practices around the globe, the firm dominated in every category, ranking second across all specialties.
A Latham team led by Brendan McShane, Sadik Huseny, and Anna Rathbun were honored as winners of The American Lawyer’s Litigators of the Week for achieving a precedent-setting dismissal for Cendyn in an antitrust proposed class action.