Marc Kessler

Practice Areas

Litigation

Complex Commercial Litigation

Tort Litigation

Real Estate

Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Insolvency

Career

Marc is an experienced trial lawyer who is widely regarded as one of the nation’s preeminent business litigators. He has extensive experience with large-scale, “bet-the-company” matters and is widely recognized for his ability to handle the most complex and critical litigation issues. Marc’s expertise includes complex commercial transactions, procurement, health care , trade secrets and non-competition, product liability, business torts, real estate, intellectual property rights, and toxic tort defense.

During his almost 30 years of practice, Marc has tried, litigated, arbitrated, mediated, or otherwise resolved a wide variety of disputes and other client matters across the country. Marc’s clients include large publicly traded corporations, health care companies, chemical companies, steel manufacturers, financial institutions, accounting firms, and a variety of governmental entities.

As part of his sophisticated practice, Marc counsels health care clients as they navigate the complex regulatory environment and assists clients in resolving disputes with state government entities through administrative litigation. Marc has significant experience representing clients in administrative hearings through contested case hearings and defending favorable decisions through appeals. His representation includes serving as national counsel to one of the largest health insurance providers in the country for more than 12 years. In this representation, Marc has built a reputation based on providing top-notch innovation, quality, and service in all aspects of state and local government procurement, including leading the firm’s representation of this client in numerous matters where billions of dollars are at stake.

In addition to his representation of clients in the health care industry, Marc represents a large range of clients in non-compete, non-solicitation, and trade secret matters, helping them protect their competitive advantage.

Marc has also achieved significant trial success for his clients in complex, high-stakes product liability litigation.

Professional Memberships

• American Bar Association, Member; Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries; Young Lawyers Division, Arts, Entertainment and Sports Law Committees, Vice Chair

• Ohio State Bar Association, Member; Sports and Entertainment Law Committee, Chairman; Litigation Committee

• Ohio Supreme Court Commission on Certification of Attorneys as Specialists, Vice Chair

• Columbus Bar Association, Member; Construction Law Committee; Sports and Entertainment Law Committee

• Capital University School of Law: Adjunct Professor, Professional Sports Law

Education