Anne Savage

Counsel

Anne J. Savage is a counsel in O'Melveny's Washington, DC office and a member of the White Collar Defense and Corporate Investigations practice. She has experience representing individuals and sophisticated commercial clients in a variety of matters, including internal and special litigation committee investigations, securities class actions, and shareholder derivative suits, on subjects spanning corporate governance, securities law, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, fiduciary duty, and trademark issues. Anne also maintains a robust pro bono practice focusing on animal law issues. Illustrative experience includes:

• Representing the special committee of an international newspaper company's board of directors in its comprehensive internal investigation and subsequent prosecution of hundreds of millions of dollars in breach of fiduciary duty and fraud claims against the company's former senior management and controlling shareholders.
• Defending the former audit committee chairman of a leading international fruit company in a special litigation committee investigation and related shareholder derivative and Alien Tort Act actions.
• Representing the provisional liquidators of a former international investment bank and conducting an internal investigation in connection with the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission's investigation into certain of the bank's complex derivative securities.
• Representing and counseling a former United States congressman in post-sentencing issues arising from his guilty plea to federal conspiracy and tax evasion charges.
• Managing the trademark docket of an international model train company by handling the company's trademark applications with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and its opposition proceedings with the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
• Represented a major securities firm in a high-profile evidentiary hearing into court order breaches and other sanctionable conduct by a multi-billion dollar Canadian pharmaceuticals company and its counsel.
• Represented a major financial institution and certain of its former executives and employees as third parties in a highly contentious libel action by a former analyst against a large pharmaceuticals company.
• Represented a national animal welfare society in connection with a ballot initiative dispute with the commercial greyhound racing industry in the Massachusetts Supreme Court.

Professional Activities

Admitted to Practice, U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
Editor, Criminal Litigation (newsletter published by the American Bar Association's Section of Litigation)
Co-Author, "Expanding Boundaries: FCPA Jurisdiction Over Foreign Entities and Individuals," Criminal Litigation (Vol. 9, No. 1, Fall 2008) (with R. Grime)
Member, American Bar Association, Section of Litigation