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Nate Eimer is one of four founding partners of Eimer Stahl Klevorn & Solberg LLP. Prior to that he was a partner at Sidley & Austin. At Sidley & Austin, Mr. Eimer was a member of the firm’s Executive Committee, General Counsel to the firm, and co-head of the Commercial and Regulatory Litigation Practice Group. Mr. Eimer also served as head of the firm’s litigation practice in its New York office. Mr. Eimer’s practice at Sidley & Austin centered on complex litigation and antitrust matters, including criminal antitrust investigations and proceedings. Since the founding of Eimer Stahl, Mr. Eimer has continued his practice in those areas, receiving Chambers & Partners' rating as one of three "Tier One" antitrust lawyers in Illinois. In a recent survey of Fortune 1000 companies, Mr. Eimer was one of only 90 lawyers in the country named as delivering outstanding service to clients. 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. He is currently acting as lead counsel in a multi-district litigation attempting to hold several companies liable under the Sherman Act for the activities of OPEC. Recently he successfully represented a client in a grand jury investigation of the industrial gas industry, recovered millions of dollars in antitrust overcharges from parcel tanker shippers on behalf of a Fortune 100 client, and defended against monopolization charges brought against a client by the world's largest producer of steel. Mr. Eimer also represents clients in a broad variety of complex criminal matters. For example, he just successfully defended CITGO Petroleum Corporation in a criminal environmental trial in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, and is currently involved in two other complex criminal investigations. He also currently represents CITGO in connection with numerous civil actions claiming that an additive to gasoline is defective and contaminates groundwater. Mr. Eimer has acted as Hollinger Inc.'s primary U.S. criminal, securities, and commercial litigation defense counsel in connection with massive fraud and other claims brought against it. Mr. Eimer has been lead counsel for a group of dairy cooperatives, led by Land 0'Lakes, Inc. in a complex series of adversary proceedings surrounding the bankruptcy of an oil refinery owned by the cooperatives. Mr. Eimer was one of two lead counsel 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.
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
John T. Lucking, Vice President and General Counsel
UOP LLC
Sam Scott, Director of Motorola, Inc.
Chief Executive Officer of Corn Products International
Peter Janzen, Vice President and General Counsel
Land O’Lakes, Inc.
James Breedlove, Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
Praxair, Inc.
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