Andrew Klevorn is an experienced antitrust and commercial trial lawyer.
Chambers USA has described him as “a polished and self-assured attorney who really instills trust in his clients.” He is also listed in
Illinois Super Lawyers (2008–2012). Mr. Klevorn has played a principal role in numerous antitrust grand jury investigations, class actions, and other civil and criminal antitrust matters. He also counsels clients with respect to the antitrust aspects of proposed mergers and acquisitions, and has assisted clients in a wide variety of industries, including paper, cement, fertilizers, consumer goods, telecommunications, printing, petroleum products, industrial gases and dairy products.
Mr. Klevorn also represents clients in a variety of complex commercial matters. For instance, he has assisted I-Flow LLC in nationwide product liability actions, encompassing numerous individual cases and trials. He also represented a leading petroleum refiner in its successful defense of a nationwide class action which alleged that it had failed to price its gasoline in good faith, and Holcim (US), Inc., a leading cement supplier, in connection with substantial construction claims against contractors and suppliers arising out of the construction of a cement production facility in Texas.
In the antitrust and competition areas, notable transactions and litigation in which Mr. Klevorn has played or is playing a primary or lead role include the following:
- Representation of Kimberly-Clark in connection with its acquisition of Scott Paper Company.
- Representation of the nation’s largest printer in its successful defense against a preliminary injunction proceeding and subsequent administrative action brought by the Federal Trade Commission seeking to enjoin the acquisition of its leading competitor. This matter represents one of the few transactions in which the FTC lost both the preliminary injunction and administrative litigation that sought to bar a proposed merger.
- Dismissal of Holcim (US), Inc. against claims that it had conspired to fix the prices of cement and concrete in Florida.
- Defense of a leading chemicals manufacturer in a grand jury investigation of potential price-fixing and market allocation; no indictments were returned.
- Defense of Kimberly-Clark against claims that it monopolized or attempted to monopolize the sale of disposable training pants.
Prior to joining Katten, Mr. Klevorn was a founding partner of Eimer Stahl Klevorn & Solberg and, before that, was a partner at Sidley Austin LLP. He has had articles published in
The Wall Street Journal, the American Bar Association's
Antitrust Litigator and
Corporate Counsel magazine. He also has been a speaker and panelist at various antitrust conferences and seminars.
Mr. Klevorn graduated with honors from the University of Chicago in 1983, where he majored in economics, and received his Juris Doctor,
magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School in 1986, where he became a member of the Order of the Coif. He is a member of the Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association.