Anna Deknatel is an Associate in Quinn Emanuel’s New York office. She joined the firm in 2018.
Anna’s practice spans a range of complex commercial disputes and class actions including bankruptcy litigation, antitrust, RMBS, structured finance, mergers and acquisitions, and environmental litigation. Anna has experience at all stages of litigation and has represented clients in state and federal courts at the trial and appellate levels. She represents both plaintiffs and defendants, including bringing litigation on behalf of shareholders and investors.
Anna has represented multiple distressed borrowers and other market participants in defending liability management transactions. Anna’s representations include roles in the lawsuits challenging up-tier recapitalization transactions by TriMark USA, Boardriders, and Wesco/Incora, on trial in the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. Anna has been recognized in 2024and 2025 as The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch for Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law.
Anna maintains an active pro bono practice, including obtaining a seven-figure settlement on behalf of a class of student loan borrowers targeted by a debt relief scam, and representing an individual asserting employment claims at a jury trial in the District Court for the Southern District of New York. Prior to joining the firm, Anna received a Skadden Fellowship, during which she represented homeowners and consumers in bankruptcy and foreclosure proceedings at a legal services non-profit. Before law school, Anna worked as a political and communications consultant.
Anna clerked for Judge Margo K. Brodie of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York and for Judge Elizabeth S. Stong in the Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York. Anna graduated from Penn Law School and was the recipient of the MH Goldstein prize, for the best paper on a topic of labor law. She was the Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Law and Social Change.
- University of Pennsylvania Law School
- (J.D., magna cum laude, 2014)
- Order of the Coif
- Order of the Coif
- Harvard University
- (B.A., Sociology, 2006)
The State Bar of New York
- Law Clerk for the Honorable Margo K. Brodie:
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, 2015-2016
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, 2015-2016
- Law Clerk for the Honorable Elizabeth S. Stong:
- Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York, 2014-2015
- The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, 2024 and 2025
- ABC on the Books and in the Courts: Independent Contractor and Misclassification Statutes, 18 PA. J.L. & SOC. CHANGE 53 (2015) (with co-author Lauren Hoff).
- Civil Rights Commonality: Dukes’ Common Answers, § 1983 Class Actions, & Government Reform, 4 L.A. PUB. INTEREST L.J. 1 (2014).