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Partner Christopher Thatch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/real-estate-authority\/commercial\/articles\/2281716\"><em>Law360<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/environment-and-energy\/mcguirewoods-hires-christopher-thatch-as-litigation-partner\"><em>Bloomberg Law<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/informedinfrastructure.com\/98571\/top-commercial-litigator-christopher-thatch-joins-mcguirewoods-in-washington\/\"><em>Informed Infrastructure<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/globallegalchronicle.com\/top-commercial-litigator-christopher-thatch-joins-mcguirewoods-in-washington\/\"><em>Global Legal Chronicle<\/em><\/a> are among the legal and business media outlets that covered the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcguirewoods.com\/news\/press-releases\/2025\/1\/top-commercial-litigator-christopher-thatch-joins-mcguirewoods-in-washington\/\">arrival<\/a> of McGuireWoods partner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcguirewoods.com\/people\/t\/christopher-n-thatch\/\">Christopher Thatch<\/a>, who joined the firm\u2019s commercial litigation practice in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thatch represents global companies in claims stemming from high-value construction projects and provides risk mitigation advice to clients involved in building or investing in such projects.&nbsp;He handles major public and commercial projects, including energy infrastructure, environmental cleanup and remediation efforts, flood protection repair, power plants, liquefied natural gas&nbsp;facilities, aircraft development&nbsp;and military programs. He also advises clients in antitrust matters, mass torts and product liability cases, contract disputes and a host of other substantive areas. He is ranked as a top construction litigator by&nbsp;<em>Chambers USA<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>The Best Lawyers in America<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thatch told <em>Law360<\/em> that the growth of McGuireWoods\u2019 D.C. office and the firm\u2019s capabilities to assist clients engaged in construction and infrastructure appealed to him. He looks forward to helping the firm enhance those capabilities, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;My hope is to be on the front end of that build-out and really project it forward,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law360, Bloomberg Law, Informed Infrastructure and Global Legal Chronicle are among the legal and business media outlets that covered the arrival of McGuireWoods partner Christopher Thatch, who joined the firm\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[],"industry_tax":[56,42],"international_tax":[],"location_tax":[79],"media_role":[],"news_type":[2416],"people_tax":[3709],"practice_tax":[95,103,141,160,221,3313],"site_tax":[2],"class_list":["post-80009","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_type-in-the-news","practice_tax-construction","practice_tax-business-litigation","practice_tax-antitrust-trade-regulation","practice_tax-trials","practice_tax-environmental-litigation","practice_tax-crisis-management-incident-response"],"acf":[],"links_out":[{"id":79225,"title":"Christopher N. 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