Anna E. Sallstrom

Trade Secrets

Anna helps businesses protect their valuable trade secrets. She proactively advises clients on their trade-secret protection policies, investigates potential trade-secret theft, and protects trade secrets through litigation. As a former computer programmer, she brings a deep interest in technology to her work and a valuable perspective to to cases involving software or other technical trade secrets. 

Anna has obtained favorable results for clients in both litigation and arbitration, including as part of the trial team that won a multimillion-dollar jury verdict in favor of a Fortune 100 company on claims of tortious interference with contracts protecting trade secrets and confidential information.

Antitrust 

Anna represents clients in antitrust litigation, including investigations and enforcement actions by the Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and state attorneys general, as well as private antitrust actions. She has helped clients secure merger clearance from federal regulators and favorable results in antitrust investigations. 

Anna also provides practical and business-focused advice to help clients manage antitrust risk. She counsels clients on issues related to pricing, distribution and other topics, and has experience advising trade associations.

In her antitrust work, Anna draws on her prior experience as a trial attorney with the DOJ’s Antitrust Division, where she litigated merger challenges, led merger reviews, and conducted antitrust investigations. 

She is currently the vice-chair of the Minnesota State Bar Association’s Antitrust Section Council and speaks regularly on antitrust developments.

Prior Experience

In addition to her experience at the Antitrust Division, Anna is a former Federal Circuit law clerk. She graduated from Stanford Law School, where she served as editor-in-chief of the Stanford Technology Law Review.

Personal Interests

In her free time, Anna enjoys playing board games with her husband and creating craft projects with her two young children.