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Anna K. Stark

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Overview

Anna is a business litigator and a white-collar criminal practice lawyer. As an associate in the firm, she has a wide spectrum of litigation experience that encompasses handling complex civil cases and white-collar defense. She focuses on her practice on matters involving civil and criminal antitrust, fraud, securities, breach of contract, and business torts in state and federal courts as well as tribunals. She represents individual and institutional clients in multiple industries, including financial services, entertainment, insurance, pharmaceuticals and real estate.

Anna has experience arguing motions and petitions in state and federal courts for pro bono clients, including representing LGBT individuals before federal immigration court and state family court, and representing HIV+ clients in a variety of civil proceedings. She also has experience representing clients and managing discovery in matters related to entertainment contracts, cyber and media insurance, and defamation-related claims.

Prior to joining Thompson Hine, Anna was an associate at an Am Law 200 firm. While attending law school, Anna served as a judicial intern for the Honorable Lee Yeakel in the United States District Court’s Western District of Texas. Prior to that, she worked as a research assistant at the University of Virginia School of Law. She worked as a court-appointed guardian ad litem for CASA of Travis County, Texas. While achieving her B.A. at Northwestern University, Anna served as an intern for the Honorable Michael Keasler in the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.

Experience

Examples of Anna’s experience include:

Represented a production company in obtaining a temporary restraining order preventing its production partner from breaching the parties’ contract by cancelling the event the parties agreed to produce together or communicating to stakeholders that the event was cancelled.
Represented a pharmaceutical manufacturer in defense of antitrust actions brought by the State Attorneys General for multiple states, as well as related antitrust class actions and direct actions.
Represented an insurer in a dispute with a Fortune 100 company concerning coverage for a high-profile defamation settlement under multiple professional liability policies.
Represented an insurer in a dispute with a Fortune 100 company concerning coverage for a significant settlement of an antitrust lawsuit under an employment practices liability policy.
Represented the chairman of an international corporation in actions for purported breach of contract, fraud, racketeering, and other alleged misconduct brought by several investment funds concerning a €600 million payment in kind loan that later was securitized and sold to investors
Represented former CEO in an enforcement action brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission alleging securities fraud related to executive compensation disclosures.
Represented a pro bono client in a legal dispute arising from a restraining notice placed on his bank account and helped to establish new legal precedent regarding the application of personal property exemptions to non-bankruptcy judgment debtors.

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