Anna is an associate in the Construction Group in Taft’s Chicago office, where she provides strategic legal counsel to clients involved in construction and energy projects worldwide. She represents owners, developers, contractors, subcontractors, and design professionals in both public and private sectors. Her work includes contract drafting and negotiation, risk assessment, and dispute resolution involving breach of contract, design and construction defects, delays, acceleration, disruption, cost escalation, loss of productivity, MBE compliance and mechanics liens. Anna has experience resolving disputes through negotiation, mediation, litigation and arbitration, including proceedings under AAA, ICC, ICDR, JAMS, LCIA, and HKIAC rules.
As a member of Taft’s French Practice Group, Anna also supports French companies doing business in North America. As a French national and native speaker, her deep understanding of both legal systems and business cultures allows her to provide tailored, bilingual support to clients navigating cross-border transactions and disputes.
Before joining the firm, Anna worked at leading construction law firms and energy companies across Paris, Hong Kong, Ho-Chi-Minh City, Washington D.C., New York and Chicago. She earned her LL.M. from Georgetown University, a Bachelor of Laws from Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas, and a Master’s Degree in International Arbitration and Business Law from Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, in France. Before law school, Anna spent six years competing internationally as a member of the French National Figure Skating Team
