Katherine Rumer

Katherine is an associate in Linklaters’ litigation, arbitration and investigations practice. She represents clients in complex civil and white-collar criminal matters, as well as arbitrations. She is a former law clerk at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York and has been involved in class action litigation, multidistrict litigation, arbitration, and enforcement investigations. Katherine also has significant experience with issues of transnational law. 

She speaks Spanish and is conversational in Portuguese and Greek.

Work highlights

• Former CEO of publicly traded biopharmaceutical company: defending against securities fraud, wire fraud and insider trading charges brought by the Department of Justice, including at trial.
• Multinational financial services company: representing company in multidistrict data breach litigation.
• National medical device company: defending company against False Claims Act allegations, including through trial phase.
• Multiple bank executives: advised in connection with SEC enforcement investigation.
• Pro bono: representing individual in § 1983 discriminatory policing practices case, along with the ACLU Justice Lab, including at trial.
• Pro bono: representing individual in asylum application process.
• Pro bono: represented U.S. Military veteran in connection with appeal to upgrade discharge status.
• International and domestic companies and underwriters: advised in connection with a range of equity and debt transactions.

Katherine worked on anticorruption and rule of law matters prior to law school as a Fulbright Scholar and interned at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. She has spent significant time working and studying abroad, including stints in Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, the U.K. and Ghana.

Katherine received her Juris Doctor cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center, where she was a Global Law Scholar, an Institute of International Economic Law Fellow, and a CALI Award recipient. While at Georgetown, she was an Executive Editor of the Georgetown Journal of International Law, as well as a member of the Barristers’ Council (Alternative Dispute Resolution Division), the Policy Clinic, and the Guantanamo Observers Program.

Katherine holds a Bachelor of Science magna cum laude in International Politics from Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.