Anne Beaumont

Practice Areas

Anne Beaumont’s practice focuses on representation of investment and asset management firms and their managers and investors and other financial services firms in litigation and disputes as well as regulatory and criminal investigations and enforcement matters. She has extensive experience in matters involving complex financial products and transactions, including liability management exercises, derivatives, and structured products. Anne has significant trial experience, including most recently in the Delaware Court of Chancery, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. She also counsels and trains financial services industry clients on legal compliance, due diligence, and other issues, and advises them on employment and separation issues.

Career

Anne’s recent experience includes:

• Representation of the collateral agent for a syndicated first-lien term loan facility, including serving as lead trial counsel, in litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery challenging a liability management transaction executed by Del Monte Foods, Inc. and a group of its lenders;

• Representation, including serving as lead trial counsel, of a CDO collateral manager and recovery service provider in litigation brought by a CDO trustee;

• Representation of a group of lenders holding over $600 million of first-lien debt in Serta Simmons Bedding in lawsuits challenging Serta’s June 2020 “uptier” transaction, including a four-day Bankruptcy Court trial;

• In an employment discrimination action against a global asset management firm, obtained dismissal on summary judgment of all claims by the District Court and affirmance by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals;

• Advising derivatives counterparties regarding rights, remedies, and potential litigation claims arising out of events in the Texas electricity market in connection with Winter Storm Uri in February 2021;

• Representation of an online mortgage lender in litigation asserting claims for tortious interference with contract, misappropriation of confidential information, and violation of the Defend Trade Secrets Act in connection with a competitor’s solicitation and hiring of the client’s former employee;

• Representation of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. in defense of a class action lawsuit alleging a conspiracy to set the ISDAfix benchmark rate;

• Representation of GSO Capital Partners in litigation challenging its refinancing of debt issued by New Jersey-based home builder Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc.

In addition to her active litigation practice, Anne serves on Friedman Kaplan’s Management Committee.