Anna Terteryan

Commercial Litigation

• Counsel for Eli Lilly and Company in litigation related to a collaboration agreement to codevelop an investigational drug. 
• Counsel for leading technology services and consulting company in contract and trade secrets disputes arising out of work on state health insurance exchanges.
• Counsel for sellers in an earnout dispute arising out of the sale of an air handling manufacturer. Settlement achieved.  
• Counsel for Vista Equity Partners Management, former executives of a former Vista portfolio company, and two Vista funds in a breach of contract, tortious interference, and trade secrets case in connection with Vista's $160 million sale of MicroEdge to BlackBaud. Defeated or successfully resolved all claims, including winning summary judgment on all remaining claims against Vista Management.

Securities

• Counsel for Zendesk, Inc., a service-first CRM company, and certain of its officers and directors in putative shareholder class action arising out of the $10.2 billion take-private acquisition of Zendesk by Permira Advisers LLC and Hellman & Friedman LLC. Won motion to dismiss all claims in federal court. 
• Counsel for cloud-based analytics company and certain of its officers in putative shareholder class action arising out of private equity firm’s multi-billion dollar take-private acquisition.  Ongoing. 
• Represented the special committee of the board of directors of a construction company in an internal and SEC investigation involving allegations of accounting fraud. 

Class Action and Multi-District Litigation

• Counsel for bp and its affiliates in defending and resolving tens of thousands of economic loss and property damage claims arising from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon incident in the Gulf of Mexico. Successfully obtained dismissal of hundreds of claims for various procedural and pleading deficiencies, as well as several motion to dismiss, summary judgment, and appellate wins for bp.
• Counsel for Thoma Bravo LP in multidistrict litigation arising out of Thoma Bravo’s investments in cryptocurrency exchange FTX.

Restructuring

• Litigation counsel for Energy Future Holdings Corp. and 70 of its affiliates (EFH) in their Chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.  EFH—the largest generator, distributor, and certified retail provider of electricity in Texas—was the product of the largest leveraged buy-out in history. With over $49 billion in liabilities and $36 billion in assets, EFH's Chapter 11 case was the largest operating Chapter 11 case ever filed in Delaware at the time and among the ten largest Chapter 11 cases filed in U.S. history. Served as a core member of the trial teams for multiple confirmation and allocation proceedings, as well as in a related adversary proceeding to enforce EFH’s drag-along rights against the minority investor in EFH’s non-debtor subsidiary, Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC.

Regulatory

• Supported court-appointed independent oversight monitor as a member of the monitor team following the federal criminal conviction of Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) in connection with the deadly 2010 San Bruno gas pipeline explosion. Led the team’s evaluation and oversight of PG&E’s compliance and ethics programs. The team's work contributed to significant safety improvements at PG&E.