Daniel Kotchen is a partner with Kotchen & Low LLP. His main practice areas include complex commercial litigation, counseling, and representing clients before government agencies. Mr. Kotchen previously served as a federal antitrust prosecutor, has substantial experience in private practice, and has cross-functional legal and business experience with a leading consumer goods corporation.

As a trial lawyer with the Federal Trade Commission, Mr. Kotchen litigated merger and non-merger cases in both federal court and administratively within the FTC; led or took leadership roles in non-merger investigations of pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, and physician independent practice associations; and served as the FTC’s liaison to the Food and Drug Administration.

In private practice, Mr. Kotchen has taken leadership roles in a number of complex commercial litigation matters (involving both class and individual claims) in a wide variety of substantive areas, including antitrust, fraud, consumer protection, and contract-related claims. Mr. Kotchen has successfully represented defendants against claims of up to $1 billion and plaintiffs in cases resulting in settlements of up to $220 million. Mr. Kotchen developed a particular expertise in antitrust while litigating matters involving a broad spectrum of antitrust theories, such as price fixing, market allocation, refusals to deal, monopolization, attempted monopolization, conspiracies to monopolize, monopsony, tying, alleged unlawful mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property licensing, and patent misuse. Mr. Kotchen has also developed an expertise in class action litigation, in both defending organizations against class claims and representing plaintiffs in class cases.

Mr. Kotchen has counseled clients in a broad array of industries, including consumer goods and retail, health care, manufacturing and distribution, airline and other forms of transportation, telecommunications, and energy. He has represented clients in competition-related matters before the FTC, Department of Justice, Department of Transportation, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and state attorneys general.

Finally, Mr. Kotchen has made significant contributions to both the legal and business operations of Kimberly-Clark Global Sales, Inc. As an in-house counsel with Kimberly-Clark, Mr. Kotchen counseled the corporation on antitrust, consumer protection, advertising, and regulatory issues, and represented the corporation before several regulatory agencies. Mr. Kotchen also led the development and implementation of a core business strategy applicable to Kimberly-Clark’s sales, marketing, and logistics functions.

Mr. Kotchen grew up in Lexington, Kentucky and Morgantown, West Virginia, enjoys politics and sports, and is married with three children.