Christopher N.Thatch (Chris)

Chris Thatch is a trial lawyer whose practice focuses primarily on construction, antitrust litigation, mass torts, and contract disputes. He has tried cases in multiple state and federal courts and has represented clients in commercial arbitrations throughout the world.

Chris has handled construction disputes on large-scale public and commercial projects, including environmental cleanup and remediation efforts, flood protection repair, power plant builds, aerospace development, infrastructure, and military programs. Recently, he successfully represented two global aerospace companies in separate International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) arbitrations, and he was counsel to a major utility in a dispute related to the licensing, design, and construction of the first nuclear power project authorized to be built in the United States in more than 30 years. Chris also has defended companies against enterprise-threatening litigation resulting from natural and man-made disasters and allegedly defective products. Chris achieved a complete defense verdict for a global engineering firm in a lawsuit alleging billions of dollars in damages from flooding in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, and he has successfully defended a multinational company in several high-stakes product liability cases. Representative clients include URS Corporation, Boeing, Southern Company, Bechtel, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, and Reynolds American.

In addition, Chris has more than 15 years of antitrust litigation experience in a variety of industries, including banking, credit cards, transportation, health care, and higher education. He has defended several merger challenges brought by the federal government, including representing American Airlines' defense of its merger with US Airways, and representing Aetna in the challenge to its merger with Humana.