About Natalie Kraft

Natalie J. Kraft is a lawyer. She is currently an associate attorney specializing in corporate and securities law at Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, based in Chicago.

With 13 offices across the U.S. and in London, Drinker Biddle helps clients in matters ranging from billion-dollar deals to complex class actions. It represents clients across a broad spectrum of industries. The firm, which employees nearly 600 lawyers, was founded in 1849.

At the firm, Kraft executes and helps shape global M&A strategies for leading international and domestic food and beverage manufacturers, industrial suppliers, international shippers, and private equity firms. She also leads the development of data-driven regression models that optimize corporate decisions by predicting the likelihood of various events. Kraft also created an information management software solution to improve data analysis efforts with an engineering team.

Before joining Drinker Biddle in 2017, Kraft was a consultant and technology auditor at Grant Thornton. She also was previously a Chicago Ventures fellow.

She has participated in a three-month tax clerkship for Judge Carl Walker of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Ill. Kraft was previously a technology teaching assistant and advisory board member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Kraft has an MBA in strategy from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she also received a bachelor’s degree. She holds a law degree from the University of Illinois College of Law.