David C. Bohan

David C. Bohan is Co-Chair of Katten's Financial Services Litigation Practice and concentrates his practice in complex civil litigation, enforcement actions, administrative proceedings and governmental investigations involving the financial services industry. Mr. Bohan has represented registered national securities exchanges, broker-dealers, futures commission merchants, hedge funds and other market participants in a variety of federal court litigation, regulatory investigations and SRO arbitrations. He has also represented officers, directors and issuers in shareholder class actions, derivative suits and SEC investigations. A former federal prosecutor, Mr. Bohan has conducted or participated in numerous internal corporate investigations on behalf of corporate boards and special committees.

Mr. Bohan also represents clients in other complex litigation, including antitrust, RICO and intellectual property disputes. He has handled matters arising out of failed mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and other sophisticated financial and commercial transactions and business dissolutions. He has tried dozens of cases to judgment or verdict in state and federal courts across the country and has argued numerous appeals in the Circuit Courts of Appeal. Mr. Bohan is listed in Illinois Super Lawyers (2007–2012).

Mr. Bohan earned his Bachelor of Arts, with distinction, from Northwestern University, and his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Harvard Law School. Upon graduation, Mr. Bohan accepted a judicial clerkship with U.S. District Judge John F. Grady in the Northern District of Illinois. Following his clerkship, he served for five years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, investigating and prosecuting a wide variety of federal criminal matters, including cases involving commodities fraud, bank fraud, tax fraud and other financial crimes.