Kaitlin Carreno represents clients in white-collar crime, professional liability, and antitrust matters.
Kaitlin advocates for public and private companies, accounting firms, and individuals in connection with investigations and proceedings by the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as in complex commercial litigation. She also has extensive experience conducting internal investigations.
Kaitlin’s antitrust practice focuses on litigation, as well as training, compliance, and transactional advice. Her antitrust litigation work has included defending clients in high-profile nationwide cases alleging price fixing, group boycotts, and market allocation. Kaitlin also defends clients in cutting-edge litigation alleging antitrust violations in the labor market, including alleged wage-fixing and no-poach agreements. Kaitlin’s antitrust practice includes work on behalf of clients in the agriculture, energy, construction, insurance, consumer products, and distribution industries.
In addition, Kaitlin handles a range of complex litigation, including defense of accounting firms in professional liability suits. She also conducts internal investigations related to potential claims of white-collar crimes, including money laundering, sanctions, and bribery.
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- Successfully defended a Big Four accounting firm in hundreds of state lawsuits arising from audits of a county-owned hospital and its pension plan, resolving the actions to the mutual satisfaction of the parties after discovery.
- Secured early dismissal with prejudice of price-fixing claims against defendant in multidistrict litigation related to use of algorithmic pricing in real estate industry.
- Defends broiler chicken producer in three price-fixing class actions, more than 180 opt-out cases, and several parallel suits filed by state attorneys general, alleging supply restraints, price fixing, information sharing, and bid rigging.
- Obtained dismissal of broiler chicken producer from class actions alleging an antitrust conspiracy to fix wages, and represents producer as non-party alleged co-conspirator in class actions and other litigation involving allegations of anticompetitive no-poach agreements in related industry.
- Represents cement producer in antitrust litigation involving allegations of price fixing, group boycotts, and market allocation.
- Named to the “Ones to Watch” list by Best Lawyers in the area of commercial litigation (2024-2026)
- Recognized by Kids in Need of Defense for her exemplary pro bono service (2020)
- Barrister, Judge Clarence Cooper American Inn of Court
- Member, Antitrust Section, American Bar Association
- Member, Antitrust Section, State Bar of Georgia
- Member, Professional Liability Section, State Bar of Georgia
- Mentor, Everybody Wins! literacy and mentoring program
- Mentor, Leadership Council on Legal Diversity
- Chair, Eversheds Sutherland Associate Committee
- Member, Eversheds Sutherland Hiring Committee
- Georgia
- State Courts of Georgia
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
- B.A., University of Florida
- J.D., cum laude, University of Notre Dame Law School