Nick is a versatile litigator practicing in Ropes & Gray’s Chicago office. He counsels a wide variety of clients—public companies, private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, healthcare companies, and individual directors and officers—facing complex, high‑stakes commercial disputes and business decisions. With experience across the full life cycle of civil litigation from pre‑suit strategy through trial, Nick provides actionable, practical guidance that helps clients navigate their most complex issues. Throughout his practice, Nick pairs creative legal arguments with commercially grounded strategies to deliver outcomes that advance clients’ litigation positions while protecting their broader business objectives, often in close collaboration with colleagues from the firm’s corporate practice groups.
Beyond commercial litigation, Nick represents corporate entities and individuals in government investigations and criminal prosecutions. Nick also maintains an active pro bono litigation practice, including by representing criminal defendants from arraignment through sentencing and securing grants of asylum for multiple clients fleeing persecution. During law school, Nicholas served as both Comments Editor and Topic Access Editor for the University of Chicago Legal Forum.
Experience
- Defending national pharmacy in fraud and consumer fraud lawsuits based on retail pharmaceutical drug pricing.
- Represented major hospital system in DOJ antitrust investigation of alleged anti‑steering restrictions.
- Represented parent in “Varsity Blues” college admissions prosecution.
- Represented Fortune 500 company in a contract and consumer‑fraud suit stemming from a data security breach through trial.
- Represented minority‑shareholder and company‑founder client in arbitration against majority shareholder, vindicating client’s contractual rights in an arbitral award and subsequent confirmation by the S.D.N.Y.
- Defended private equity firm client in multiple litigations based on alleged conduct of ultimate portfolio company.
- Represented behavioral health company in DOJ investigation into vendor selection practices.
- Represented investment manager in residential mortgage‑backed securities trust litigation.
- Conducted internal investigation of pharmaceutical company regarding allegations of improper sales tactics.
- Secured grants of asylum for multiple pro bono clients fleeing political and religious persecution in their home countries.
- Represented multiple criminal defendants with Criminal Justice Act appointed counsel from initial arraignment through contested sentencing hearing.