Blank Rome Expands Chicago Office with Addition of Commercial Litigation Partner Bill Katris

Chicago, IL—Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Basileios “Bill” Katris has joined the firm’s Chicago office as a partner in the Commercial Litigation group. A Certified Information Privacy Professional in the United States (“CIPP/US”), Bill handles a wide range of litigation including data privacy, restrictive covenants, and labor and employment matters, as well as shareholder disputes, and acts as outside general counsel for technology companies of all types. Before joining Blank Rome, Bill was a partner at HMB Legal Counsel where he chaired the litigation group.

Bill’s addition advances the strategic growth of Blank Rome’s Chicago office, which welcomed finance partner Cynde H. Munzer in 2022. Bill also strengthens the firm’s nationally recognized Corporate practice, which has added nearly 20 attorneys to its ranks over the past two years across the firm’s U.S. offices, and the Privacy, Security & Data Protection group, which continues to expand nationally following the addition of a leading team in the firm’s recently established Orange County office.

Bill has more than 20 years of experience handling a wide range of complex commercial matters for small business owners, large publicly traded companies, and government institutions in the areas of insurance recovery, employment law, shareholder disputes, intellectual property, and misappropriation of trade secrets.

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