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Anne E. Beaumont's practice focuses on complex commercial litigation and financial services matters, with particular emphasis on litigation on behalf of hedge funds and their investors. Her recent matters include representing a hedge fund manager and certain of the funds that it managed in litigation against the funds' administrator and middle/back-office service provider; representing more than ninety major institutional investors, funds of funds, pension funds, and individuals who lost more than $580 million in the Lancer hedge funds in litigation against the funds' auditor, administrators, and prime broker/custodian; representing a former corporate officer in an ERISA class action; representing the former CEO of an Internet startup company in parallel civil and criminal proceedings; and representing an investor in claims against a Wall Street broker-dealer arising out of an equity derivative transaction. Ms. Beaumont graduated with honors in 1988 from the University of California, Berkeley and magna cum laude in 1997 from New York University School of Law, where she was admitted to the Order of the Coif and received the Morton Geller Award, Paul D. Kaufman Memorial Award, Arthur Vanderbilt Medal, and Edward Weinfeld Prize. She served as a Staff Editor and Note and Comment Editor of the N.Y.U. Law Review and is the author of Note, This Estoppel Has Got to Stop: Judicial Estoppel and the Americans with Disabilities Act, 71 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1529 (1996). She previously practiced at Willkie Farr & Gallagher and Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP. Ms. Beaumont is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and has served on the Committees on International Law and International Human Rights and the Task Force on International Legal Services. She also is a member of the International Criminal Defence Attorneys Association, an international non-governmental organization devoted to ensuring a highly professional defense for persons who are to be tried before international tribunals, such as the International Criminal Court. | 