Anne C. Malinee

Anne’s experience includes representing:

• CoStar Group, an international commercial real estate data firm, in:
  • Federal court litigation in Los Angeles against competitor Commercial Real Estate Exchange (CREXi), a major CoStar competitor valued at half a billion dollars in 2022 and backed by multiple venture capital funds, involving claims of copyright infringement and Digital Millenium Copyright Act violations
  • 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
  • Federal court litigation in Los Angeles, in which CoStar defeated baseless trade secret misappropriation claims brought by News Corp subsidiary Move, 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
• Synergy Marine investor in the Francis Scott Key Bridge allision response and investigations
• The Carlyle Group, one of its investment funds, and individual fund executives, as trial counsel, in American Arbitration Association (AAA) arbitration and state-court litigation brought by a municipality seeking more than US$600 million, obtaining a complete defense victory*
• A global defense contractor, as trial counsel, in multiple commercial arbitrations before AAA panels, with alleged damages ranging from US$18 million to more than US$1 billion*
• Two bankers, as trial counsel, in a FINRA arbitration involving allegations of trade secret misappropriation and restrictive covenant violations*
• Private tech companies in a data privacy mass action in New Jersey state court under New Jersey’s Daniel’s Law 
• British Petroleum in multidistrict litigation proceedings arising out of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill*
• A publicly traded company in federal court defending a claim that its newly adopted corporate name infringes the trademark rights of another party*
• The president of a reinsurance company in Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission investigations and related civil litigations*
• A criminal defendant, as pro bono trial counsel, 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