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Kent K. Anker concentrates in complex commercial and criminal litigation involving a wide variety of industries, representing clients in New York state courts, federal courts across the country, and arbitration tribunals. His matters have included representing a commercial developer in insurance, contract, and tort litigations arising from the destruction of 7 World Trade Center on September 11, 2001; multiple actions in federal and state trial, bankruptcy, and appellate courts involving allegations of statutory violations, breaches of fiduciary duty, and fraud arising out of the merger of a closely-held corporation; defense of a national law firm against fraud allegations; representation of an individual involved in a criminal antitrust investigation of the airline industry; a civil antitrust action concerning standard-setting in the wireless industry; disputes arising out of the sale of an international fund management company; a suit on behalf of institutional investors against a Big Four accounting firm; price-fixing allegations in the tobacco industry; and arbitration and injunction actions on behalf of an international brewer. Mr. Anker also represented families before the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund. Mr. Anker graduated with honors in 1991 from Wesleyan University and magna cum laude in 1998 from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Journal on Legislation. He is the author of Differences and Dialogue: School Finance in New York State, 124 N.Y.U. Rev. L. & Soc. Change 345 (1998). Early in his career, Mr. Anker worked as an education lobbyist, lobbying elected officials in Albany, Washington, D.C., and New York City. He remains active in education reform efforts locally and nationally, serving on the board of Education Reform Now Advocacy and as a member of the Committee on Education and the Law of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He previously practiced at Willkie Farr & Gallagher and Boies, Schiller & Flexner. | 