Ms Anna Rotman > Kirkland & Ellis LLP > Houston, United States > Lawyer Profile
Kirkland & Ellis LLP Offices
609 Main Street
Houston, Tx 77002
TEXAS
United States
Ms Anna Rotman
Position
Anna leads Kirkland’s litigation practice in Houston, and has played a leading role in recent hallmark cases shaping the energy industry. As a trial lawyer, she has significant first-chair experience in business and environmental disputes representing leading oil, gas, power and renewable companies, midstream companies and technology companies, as well as private-equity portfolio companies in a variety of industries. Anna has successfully represented both plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal courts and arbitrations throughout the United States. She also regularly represents both debtors and creditors in restructuring-related litigation.
Education
Harvard Law School, J.D., 2004, cum laude; Georgetown University, B.S., School of Foreign Service, 1998, magna cum laude; Judge Marvin J. Garbis, Federal District Court, District of Maryland
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
(Leading partners)Kirkland & Ellis LLP’s energy litigation team of experienced lawyers based in Texas and Washington DC assists major oil and gas operators, energy corporations and renewable energy companies in energy-related litigation before US state and federal courts, appeals courts and international tribunals. The team is also particularly active in administrative and regulatory proceedings before the European Union and other international governing bodies. From the Houston office, Anna Rotman regularly appears before state courts, federal courts and arbitrations throughout the US in restructuring-related disputes, and has recently conducted complex high-stakes plaintiffs litigation alongside Jeremy Fielding from the Dallas office. Other notable names include Washington DC’s Daniel Donovan and Ragan Naresh, who routinely handle large class actions in the oil and gas sector.
Lawyer Rankings
- Energy litigation: oil and gas United States > Energy
- Leading partners United States > Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Government > Government relations
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: automotive/transport
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Government > State attorneys general
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Insurance > Insurance: non-contentious
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Finance > Project finance
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism