Anastasia Pastan

Primary Focus & Experience

Ms. Pastan has broad experience preparing complex, high stakes matters, including class actions and multi-district litigations, for trial. While she represents clients across a variety of areas, her practice focuses on antitrust. She has litigated both government and private antitrust actions, in administrative tribunals and federal courts. She was also a member of the trial team that represented the NFL in a class-action lawsuit by Sunday Ticket subscribers seeking $21 billion in damages. Following a jury trial, the district court granted judgment to the NFL as a matter of law on all claims. Ms. Pastan previously managed the trial team that defeated the FTC’s efforts to enjoin Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, clearing the path for the deal to close.

Ms. Pastan maintains an active pro bono practice; she has represented clients in a variety of trial and post-conviction matters, including criminal and class action matters.

Recognition & Accomplishments

Prior to joining Milbank LLP, Ms. Pastan was counsel at another law firm and was a law clerk to the Honorable Debra Ann Livingston of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Honorable Vince Chhabria of the US District Court for the Northern District of California.

She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School, cum laude, where she served as a note's editor for the Harvard Law Review. During law school, she interned for the Federal Defenders of New York and for judges of the Suffolk County Juvenile Court. Ms. Pastan was also a teaching fellow to Professor David B. Wilkins.

Ms. Pastan received her M.S. Ed from Bank Street College of Education, and her B.A., magna cum laude, from Columbia College.