Kate Cahoy and Kate Patchen Named Daily Journal Top Antitrust Lawyers

PALO ALTO/SAN FRANCISCO— The Daily Journal has named Kate Cahoy and Kate Patchen to its Top Antitrust Lawyers list, a recognition of the leading California lawyers working in the field of antitrust litigation.

Kate Cahoy is a partner in Covington’s Palo Alto office and serves as co-chair of the firm’s Class Actions Practice Group. She uses her substantial class action experience to help clients develop strategic and innovative solutions to their litigation issues. She specializes in defending clients in complex, high-stakes class action disputes involving privacy, antitrust, and consumer protection claims. Kate has significant experience litigating cases brought under California’s Section 17200 and other consumer protection, competition, and privacy laws, and has successfully represented clients in the technology, entertainment, consumer product, and financial services industries.

A partner in Covington’s San Francisco office and co-chair of both the firm’s Cartel Defense Practice Group and Civil Antitrust Litigation Practice Group, Kate Patchen has more than two decades of experience in global antitrust and competition law. She focuses her practice on government antitrust investigations, antitrust litigation, and antitrust compliance advice and training. As the former Director and Associate GC of Competition and Regulatory at a large tech company and Chief of the San Francisco office of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, she is a leading U.S. and globally recognized antitrust and competition lawyer. Kate has worked on complex antitrust matters across numerous major industries, including technology, digital advertising, consumer products, and manufacturing.