Anne C. Malinee

Anne’s experience includes:

• Representation of CoStar Group, an international commercial real estate data firm, including:
  • In federal court litigation in Los Angeles against Commercial Real Estate Exchange, Inc. (CREXi), a major CoStar competitor valued at half a billion dollars in 2022 and backed by multiple venture capital funds, involving claims for copyright infringement and violations of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act
  • In federal court litigation in Washington, D.C. in which CoStar obtained a permanent injunction against CREXi’s founding investor for hacking into CoStar’s database
  • Coordinating a team that obtained multiple judgments and injunctions in foreign courts against CREXi’s offshore agents for facilitating copyright infringement
  • In federal court litigation in Los Angeles in which CoStar defeated baseless trade secret misappropriation claims brought by News Corp subsidiary Move, Inc., the operator of Realtor.com, obtaining the denial of a preliminary injunction motion and the dismissal with prejudice of all claims against CoStar by Move as it faced the prospect of court-imposed sanctions
• Trial counsel for global private equity firm The Carlyle Group, one of its investment funds, and individual fund executives in AAA arbitration and state-court litigation brought by a municipality seeking more than US$600 million. After more than six years of litigation, a two-week arbitration hearing resulted in a complete defense victory. The American Lawyer recognized Anne and her colleagues as litigator-of-the-week runners-up* 
• Trial counsel for a global defense contractor in multiple commercial arbitrations before AAA panels, with alleged damages ranging from US$18 million to more than US$1 billion*
• Trial counsel for two bankers in a FINRA arbitration involving allegations of trade secret misappropriation and violation of restrictive covenants*
• Representation of Synergy Marine investor in the Francis Scott Key Bridge allision response and investigations
• Representation of British Petroleum in multi-district litigation proceedings arising out of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill*
• Representation of a publicly traded company in federal court defending a claim that its newly adopted corporate name infringes the trademark rights of another party*
• Representation of the president of a reinsurance company in DOJ and SEC investigations and related civil litigations*
• Pro bono trial counsel for a defendant in a jury trial in Maryland state court involving felony theft charges, winning a motion for judgment of acquittal*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham