Anna Kaminska is a litigation partner with extensive experience in both criminal and civil matters. She counsels public and private companies and their executives in a wide variety of cases ranging from high-stakes business disputes to investigations involving federal and state law enforcement and regulatory agencies. With over two decades of experience—as an appellate attorney, defense counsel in criminal and civil litigation, and veteran federal prosecutor specializing in financial fraud—Anna brings broad perspective to every single case and knows how to focus immediately on what matters most.
Before joining AXS, Anna spent nearly 13 years as a federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., most recently serving as the Chief of the Market Integrity and Major Frauds Unit in the Fraud Section at the Department of Justice, where she oversaw more than 200 criminal investigations and led a team of trial attorneys and deputy supervisors in complex fraud investigations involving securities, commodities, cryptocurrency, financial instruments, government procurement, and federal programs. She also served as Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division, working with senior leadership at the Department of Justice on a wide range of law-enforcement priorities, including trade fraud and consumer fraud.
As a trial lawyer, Anna prosecuted cases involving multimillion-dollar accounting fraud, cross‑border investment and telemarketing scams, pandemic‑relief schemes, foreign bribery, false statements, and money laundering, among others, serving as lead counsel in numerous multi-week trials and reaching corporate resolutions with criminal fines exceeding $2 billion. Her work earned her several awards, including the Assistant Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Service and commendations from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Agency for investigative excellence. As a supervisor, Anna helped to shape law-enforcement priorities and oversaw significant data-driven initiatives involving the detection of executive insider trading, market manipulation, and fraud in government contracting.
Earlier in her career, Anna practiced in a multinational law firm in New York, where she represented clients in complex federal criminal matters, major civil disputes, and appellate litigation, including in the United States Supreme Court. In her first criminal trial as CJA counsel at the firm, she helped secure a mid-trial acquittal for her client in the Southern District of New York, and her work on a petition for certiorari in the Supreme Court challenging an unconstitutional sentence led to the immediate release of another client from prison. Anna clerked for senior judges in both the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division.