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Anthony F. Fata

Partner

  • Chicago
  • 211 West Wacker Drive
    Suite 550
    Chicago, IL 60606
  • 312.767.5180
Headshot photo of Anthony  F.  Fata
Headshot photo of Anthony  F.  Fata
Anthony F. Fata Partner
  • Chicago
  • 211 West Wacker Drive
    Suite 550
    Chicago, IL 60606
  • 312.767.5180

Biography

Anthony F. Fata is a partner based in our Chicago office. For more than 20 years, Mr. Fata has represented clients in complex financial matters, including claims arising under the commodity, securities, antitrust, and whistleblower laws. Mr. Fata has regularly appeared before federal and state courts throughout the United States and in regulatory matters overseen by the Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and other governmental and self-regulatory agencies. He has developed and litigated numerous proprietary cases and served in leadership positions. 
Prior to joining KM, Mr. Fata practiced at McDermott, Will & Emery LLP, where he defended SEC enforcement matters, securities class actions, shareholder derivative suits, and consumer class actions. He then joined Cafferty Clobes Meriwether & Sprengel LLP to lead the firm’s efforts in commodity manipulation matters.

In addition to his law practice, since 2016, Mr. Fata has been an adjunct professor at Seton Hall University School of Law. He teaches J.D., M.S.J., and LL.M candidates in a wide range of financial services courses, including Securities Regulation, Regulating Broker Dealers, Regulating Funds and Advisors, Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Financial Crimes Compliance, Regulating Depository Institutions, Financial Privacy, and Corporate Law.

Mr. Fata is active in the Chicago Bar Association, where he serves on the Board of Managers, co-chairs the Securities Law Committee, and serves on the Editorial Board of the CBA Record. Mr. Fata is also a recurring panelist for the Practising Law Institute Internal Investigations Seminar conducted in Chicago each year.

 
  • Miami University (B.A. 1995)
  • Ohio State University Moritz College of Law (J.D. 1999)
  • Illinois State Bar
  • United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
  • United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
  • United States District Court for the District of Colorado
  • United States Courts of Appeals for the Sixth, Seventh, and Ninth Circuits

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