Partner
Daniel T. Fenske
Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Antitrust & Competition, Class Actions & Aggregate Litigation
Overview
Dan Fenske has been involved in some of the country’s most important antitrust matters. He regularly represents clients facing claims alleging anticompetitive collusion or monopolization, including class actions. He also helps clients fight back against government antitrust investigations. And he works across a diverse array of industries, including higher education, multifamily housing, enterprise software, chemicals, automotives, consumer food products, and collegiate athletics. He is the past chair of the Antitrust Law Committee of the Chicago Bar Association.
Dan also has substantial experience with class action and regulatory issues outside the antitrust context, and with general complex commercial litigation. And he believes deeply in pro bono service, having represented indigent or public-interest clients in criminal, civil rights, and voting rights cases at both the trial and appellate levels. He is a former Emerging Leader of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
Experience
Antitrust & Competition Law experience includes:
- Represented multinational company in criminal antitrust investigation and follow-on antitrust litigation in one of the largest global antitrust matters in US history.
- Represented large telecommunications company in monopolization suit, successfully obtaining summary judgment and defeating all claims.
- Represented large medical device supplier in conspiracy to monopolize suit, successfully obtaining dismissal of all claims at the pleading stage.
- Represented individual in criminal investigation by U.S. DOJ’s Antitrust Division, successfully convincing DOJ not to prosecute client.
- Represented hospital system in successfully obtaining dismissal of monopolization claims in state antitrust suit.
Education
- Northwestern University School of Law, JD, cum laude
Executive Articles Editor, Northwestern University Law Review - Marquette University, BA, cum laude
Admissions
- Illinois
- Colorado
Courts
- Illinois Supreme Court
- US Supreme Court
- US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- US District Court for the Central District of Illinois
- US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
- US District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
- US District Court for the Southern District of Illinois
- US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Professional & Community Involvement
- Member, Antitrust Section, ABA
- Past Chair, Antitrust Law Committee, Chicago Bar Association
- Member, Board of Directors, First Defense Legal Aid (2014-2018)