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Katie Schwarm focuses her practice on all aspects of complex litigation and arbitration, with particular emphasis on commercial disputes, civil and criminal enforcement matters, and internal investigations and compliance.
Katie has experience representing corporations and individuals in high-stakes matters—including contract litigation, regulatory enforcement actions and white collar defense—in both federal and state courts, as well as arbitration forums. She has regularly worked in the health technology and life sciences industries.
While in law school, Katie represented teenagers in D.C. juvenile court through Georgetown’s Juvenile Justice Clinic and served as an articles editor for the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law.
Representative Experience
- Served on the trial team representing a software vendor in a Delaware Court of Chancery dispute over termination rights under a master services agreement involving call routing software. Successfully enforced a mutual termination-for-convenience provision, defeating the plaintiff’s claim of drafting error and securing a favorable ruling following trial that preserved the client’s contractual rights.
- Represented both buyers and former shareholders in complex post-acquisition earnout disputes concerning buyers’ obligations to use commercially reasonable efforts to commercialize medical devices and achieve milestone-based payments. Secured favorable outcomes in two mediations on behalf of a public medical technologies company and in an international arbitration on behalf of former shareholders.
- Represented an international corporation in concurrent DOJ and SEC investigations involving allegations of money laundering, bank fraud, wire fraud and securities fraud.
Education
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J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 2022
B.S., Biopsychology, University of California, Davis, 2018
Admissions
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New York