Catherine Rutley

Catie Rutley is an associate in the firm’s Complex Litigation and Dispute Resolution department. Her practice includes private investment litigation, complex commercial disputes, securities and shareholder litigation, and government, regulatory, and internal investigations.

She is a contributor to Goodwin’s Securities Snapshot, a monthly newsletter discussing updates in the field of securities law.

Catie’s recent representations include:

• Founder seller in connection with investment firm buyer’s post-closing claims of fraud, breach of contract, and breaches of representations and warranties in litigation in Delaware Court of Chancery
• Private-equity backed online educational company in connection with restrictive covenant and copyright litigation pending in federal court in Massachusetts against former employee
• Directors of multiple biopharmaceutical companies in derivative fiduciary duty lawsuits concerning allegedly excessive compensation in the Delaware Court of Chancery
• Two senior-level FTX employees in connection with the high-profile investigation and subsequent prosecutions conducted by the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
• A publicly-traded pharmaceutical company in connection with an SEC investigation in which the SEC issued termination notices and declined to pursue enforcement action
• A top university in an employment discrimination and retaliation action alleging violations of Title VII, Title IX, and other federal and state laws
• Healthcare client in restrictive covenant dispute that resulted in a successful ruling after preliminary injunction hearing
• A SaaS company and its executive officers in securities fraud class action lawsuit
• A prominent national auto insurer in defense of a putative class action brought by a policyholder
• Public life sciences companies in responding to DOJ and SEC investigations concerning trading activity
• Numerous clients in Financial Industry Regulatory Authority investigations
• A pro bono client charged with first degree murder by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

During law school, Catie served as a judicial intern on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Catie also served as an Articles Editor for the Boston University Law Review, as a student attorney for the BU/MIT Technology Law Clinic, and as an Appellate Advocacy Director for the Boston University moot court competition.

Prior to law school, Catie served as a Legislative Director in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

Catie was awarded the Top Women of Law Leadership Scholarship by the Massachusetts Bar Association in 2021.