Anne Davis has more than a decade of experience litigating complex matters in both federal and state courts, including the courts of California, Delaware, and Kansas. She focuses her practice on complex investigations and litigation of antitrust, consumer, and securities matters.
Anne plays a key role in litigating In re: Facebook, Inc. Consumer Privacy User Profile Litigation and In re Google RTB Consumer Privacy Litigation; as well as a member of the In Re: ZF-TRW Airbag Control Units Products Liability Litigation, In re Local TV Advertising Antitrust Litigation and In re Domestic Airlines Travel Antitrust Litigation teams. She serves on the Education Committee of the California Lawyer’s Association’s Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law Section, and is a contributor to WG11 Brainstorming Groups on Exploring Greater Efficiencies in Data Breach and Privacy Class Action Litigation and Data Security and Privacy in Healthcare for the Sedona Conference.
Prior to joining BFA, Anne served as a Principal Counsel for Sales Practice Enforcement at the Financial Industry Regulatory (FINRA), where she, as appropriate, brought charges and negotiated resolutions or litigated formal actions pertaining to violations of FINRA, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) rules, and the federal securities laws by registered individuals and FINRA member firms.
Before FINRA, she was a senior associate at a global law firm, where she specialized in securities litigation and enforcement, complex civil litigation, and internal investigations.
Anne earned a B.A. with honors from DePaul University (2002), a M.A. (Political Science) from the University of Michigan (2006), and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School (2008). She is admitted to practice in California (2009), and the U.S. District Courts for the Northern (2010), Central (2011) and Eastern (2014) Districts of California and the Eastern District of Michigan (2019).
