Anne Clare Malinee

anne.malinee@lw.com

+1.202.637.2311

Profile

Anne Malinee is a member of Latham & Watkins’ Litigation & Trial Department, focusing on complex commercial litigation and trial work.

Ms. Malinee represents private equity firms, public companies, and individuals in complex, high-stakes civil disputes in federal and state courts and in arbitration proceedings. She has experience managing all stages of complex civil litigation, including multiple trials.

Ms. Malinee has litigated disputes in forums across the country involving claims of:

Breach of contract
Fraud
Copyright infringement
Misappropriation of trade secrets
Violation of restrictive covenants
Unfair competition
Trademark infringement
Equitable claims

While attending law school, Ms. Malinee was an articles editor of The Journal of Law and Politics and winner of the William Minor Lile Moot Court Competition. After law school, Ms. Malinee served as a law clerk to Judge Julia Smith Gibbons, US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Experience

Ms. Malinee’s experience includes:

Trial counsel for 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 Ms. Malinee 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 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

Qualifications

Bar Qualification

District of Columbia
Virginia

Education

JD, University of Virginia School of Law
Order of the Coif
BA in History & Political Science, Vanderbilt University
summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa