Caitlin M. Dunnett Britton

Associate

Chicago + 1.312.269.4293

Caitlin Dunnett Britton represents clients in a broad range of industries in complex litigation matters, including contract disputes, business torts, and antitrust actions. Her litigation experience includes fact investigation, drafting pleadings and dispositive motions, expert discovery, and general discovery matters.

Her recent work includes securing a summary judgment win in arbitration over a client's employment agreement, followed with a complete victory in related state court litigation concerning the sale of the client's company — securing a final judgment totaling nearly $50 million.

Caitlin maintains an active pro bono practice, furthering the Firm's Human Trafficking Expungement Initiative by working with victims of human trafficking to obtain expungement of their criminal records.

Experience

  • TreeHouse Foods goes private in $2.9 billion sale to InvestindustrialJones Day represented TreeHouse Foods, Inc. (NYSE: THS) in a $2.9 billion take-private transaction whereby an affiliate of Investindustrial, a leading European group of independently managed investment, holding, and advisory companies, acquired TreeHouse Foods in an all-cash transaction.
  • TopBuild acquires Progressive Roofing for $810 millionJones Day advised TopBuild Corp. (NYSE:BLD), a leading installer and specialty distributor of insulation and related building material products to the construction industry in the United States and Canada, in the $810 million acquisition of Progressive Roofing, a leader in commercial roofing installation services in the United States, from Bow River Capital.
  • Entrepreneur obtains $50 million verdict in disputes with private equity fundJones Day secured plaintiff-side judgments totaling $50 million for an Ohio entrepreneur against a private equity fund and its controlling owner after a scheme to unilaterally rescind a business deal that had not been as profitable as the counterparty hoped.