With Honors
Order of the Coif
Law Review, Managing Editor
American Bar Association, Litigation Section
American Bar Association, Business Section, Consumer Financial Services Committee
Bar Association of the District of Columbia
Ann Ashton is a Partner in the Litigation Department and a member of the Securities Litigation Group. Ann has a wide range of experience in complex litigation matters and parallel proceedings, including securities class actions and individual litigation, shareholder derivative litigation, criminal and civil enforcement proceedings before various federal and state entities, corporate internal investigations, ERISA class action litigation and market conduct class actions and individual litigation. Prior to joining Proskauer, she was co-head of the Securities, M&A and Corporate Governance Litigation Practice Group at Dewey & LeBoeuf and a member of that firm’s Executive Committee.
Ann is part of a team that practices in the intersection where class actions, shareholder derivative suits, SEC enforcement matters and white collar prosecutions meet.
The US Legal 500 says that Ann “is by far the best attorney in the United States in the field of shareholder litigation…she is truly without peer”.
SEC Enforcement and Class Action Experience
Shareholder Derivative Litigation
Royal Dutch/Shell
Commodity Futures Trading Commission Proceedings
State Attorneys General Proceedings
Department of Justice Proceedings
Ann is the co-author of the articles “Defending Directors: Cram Sheet,” Wolters Kluwer Law & Business (October 23, 2012), "Delaware Chancery Court issues decision on collateral estoppel in derivative suits," Westlaw Journal Delaware Corporate (June 25, 2012, Vol. 26, Issue 25), “Pills and Peptics: Airgas and Its Impact On Governance in the Boardroom (It’s Not All About Takeovers),” Securities Regulation & Law, BNA, Inc. (March 28, 2011), "Internal Corporate Investigations and the SEC's Message to Directors in Cooper," University of Cincinnati Law Review (1996), and "Take or Pay Litigation: Lessons Learned," Natural Gas (July/August/September 1989).