Latham Wins Top Prize at 2025 GCR Awards for Historic Illumina/GRAIL Matter
Global elite Antitrust & Competition Practice wins three team awards and earns an additional nine finalist nods.
Chris Yates, former Global Co-Chair of the firm’s Antitrust & Competition Practice, litigates precedent-setting cases across the US, with particular focus on monopolization and sports antitrust litigation.
One of the few repeat American Lawyer Litigator of the Week winners, Chris leverages more than two decades experience at the forefront of antitrust law to guide household brands and world-leading sports and entertainment properties through nuanced and novel competition issues, including:
He has a track record of success in federal trial courts across the country, including in California, New York, Florida, Texas, Illinois, and Delaware, and has won appeals before the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and other courts of appeal.
Chris regularly speaks on current antitrust litigation issues and is an active member of the American Bar Association Antitrust Law Section.
Chris maintains an active pro bono practice, including work on behalf of seniors — for which he and his team received the Justice Walker Pro Bono Award — as well as for veterans and Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), an organization that focuses on unaccompanied and separated children’s rights in the US.
Chris also served on the firm’s Associates Committee and Income Partner and Counsel Committee.
Chris’ experience includes representing:
Global elite Antitrust & Competition Practice wins three team awards and earns an additional nine finalist nods.
A Latham antitrust team led by partners Belinda Lee, Ashley Bauer, and Chris Yates won dismissal for their client Michelin in the Ohio federal MDL alleging several US tiremakers engaged in price-fixing.
A Latham team led by Chris Yates and Larry Buterman secured a unanimous jury verdict for the U.S. Soccer Federation in New York federal court, successfully defeating claims brought by North American Soccer League.