Anne Beaumont

Practice Areas

Anne Beaumont’s practice focuses on representation of investment and asset management firms and their managers and investors as well as other financial services firms in litigation matters and disputes involving complex financial products and transactions. 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

Ms. Beaumont’s recent experience includes:

• 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;

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

• 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 intellectual property litigation;

• 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.

Ms. Beaumont is also a prominent speaker, commentator and writer on legal issues affecting hedge funds and financial markets, including LIBOR transition, and she is a member of Friedman Kaplan’s Management Committee.