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Nathan P. Eimer Print

Mr. Eimer is a trial lawyer who has acted as trial counsel in numerous federal and state courts and arbitration settings.  He specializes in complex commercial litigation with emphasis on antitrust litigation and is one of three antitrust lawyers in Illinois to receive Chambers & Partners’ ‘tier one’ rating.  Mr. Eimer has played a principal role in dozens of grand jury investigations and criminal and civil antitrust cases, including several in which he has been national lead counsel for all defendants.

Mr. Eimer also represents clients in a broad variety of complex commercial matters.  For example, he was lead United States counsel for Hollinger, Inc. in connection with criminal and civil proceedings related to massive securities fraud and other allegations related to the activities of Conrad Black, its former Chairman and President.  He also successfully tried a criminal environmental case, United States vs. CITGO, brought against CITGO Petroleum Corporation in the United States District Court in the Southern District of Texas.  Mr. Eimer has been lead counsel for a group of dairy cooperatives, led by Land O’Lakes Inc., in a complex series of adversary proceedings surrounding the bankruptcy of an oil refinery owned by cooperatives.  Mr. Eimer was one of two lead counsels for the lending banks in connection with a massive bank fraud and surrounding adversary proceedings in the bankruptcy resulting from the detection of the fraud.

Mr. Eimer currently represents Land O’Lakes in a large MDL involving alleged price fixing in the eggs industry, Gerdau Steel in connection with allegations that it participated in an industry-wide price fixing conspiracy in the steel industry, Union Carbide in an MDL alleging price fixing in the plastics additives industry, and CITGO Petroleum Corporation in connection with the numerous civil actions claiming that an additive to gasoline is defective and contaminates ground water.

Since the founding of Eimer Stahl, Mr. Eimer has continued his practice for clients such as Bank of New York, CITGO Petroleum Corporation, The Dow Chemical Company, Hollinger, Inc., Praxair, Inc., Land O’ Lakes, UOP, LLC, Corn Products International and Union Carbide Corporation.

Mr. Eimer left Sidley & Austin in 2000, where he was a member of the Executive Committee and its General Counsel.

Other activities:

Criminal Law Committee, Antitrust Section, American Bar Association

Adjunct Professor of Law in Trial Advocacy, Northwestern University School of Law 1988-1996

Director, Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. 1990-Present; President 1993-1994

Executive Vice President and Director, Infant Welfare Society of Chicago 1990-1996; President 1996-1998

Director, U.S. Committee for UNICEF/Chicago 1992

Advisory Board, Children and Family Justice Center, Northwestern University School of Law 1998–present

Education:

Northwestern University, J.D. 1973, cum laude

University of Illinois, A.B. 1970, magna cum laude, With Highest Distinction in Economics

Notes and Comments Editor of the Northwestern University Law Review from 1972-1973

Member of Omicron Delta Epsilon, Economics Honorary Society

References:

Charles J. Kalil, General Counsel and Director of Corporate Legal Affairs
The Dow Chemical Company

S. Jeffrey Bednar, Associate General Counsel
CITGO Petroleum Corporation

Peter Janzen, Vice President and General Counsel
Land O’Lakes, Inc.

James Breedlove, Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
Praxair, Inc.