Christopher RJ Pace

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Chris Pace is a partner in Winston & Strawn’s Dallas office who focuses his practice on complex commercial and competition cases and government investigations. He has successfully litigated and resolved commercial, antitrust, and product liability lawsuits for clients in the health care, financial services, and technology industries, including health tech and fintech disputes. A former federal prosecutor and United States Supreme Court law clerk, Chris has been repeatedly recognized in Benchmark Litigation, Best Lawyers in America, and Chambers USA, among others, for his work in commercial litigation.

Chris has prevailed in defending Fortune 500 companies in courts across the country, including in multidistrict litigations. He is a highly sought-after counsel to prosecute and defend clients in lawsuits involving fraud, fraudulent inducement, antitrust and unfair competition, and to defend clients in multiparty actions involving complex causation and damages disputes. Some of his recent victories include achieving dismissal of the first private cryptocurrency antitrust lawsuit, upholding a financial service company's immunity from liability for alleged government disclosures under the Bank Secrecy Act, and obtaining summary judgment on the eve of trial in an energy industry tortious interference and breach of contract action. Chris is also an active appellate advocate. He has successful argued appeals before an array of appellate courts, including the United States Courts of Appeals for the First, Fifth, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits.

In his early career, Chris served the United States government as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida. He also served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit and (as an extern) Judge Edward Becker of the Third Circuit.

Chris is a member of the Florida, California, District of Columbia, New York, and Texas bars.