Anastasia Kelly is a partner in DLA Piper's White Collar, Corporate Crime and Investigations practice, based in Washington, DC and Reston, Virginia. Ms. Kelly is also a member of DLA Piper's Corporate and Finance and Public Company and Corporate Governance practices.

She comes to DLA Piper from American International Group, Inc. (AIG), where until the end of 2009 she was Vice Chairman in charge of global legal, compliance and regulatory functions, government relations, communications, corporate affairs and human resources. Ms. Kelly joined AIG as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Senior Regulatory and Compliance Officer in 2006. In the wake of the financial crisis, she was named AIG's Vice Chairman in January 2009.

In March 2010, Ms. Kelly was the subject of an interview in Fortune magazine, "Inside the Crisis at AIG."

Prior to joining AIG, Ms. Kelly was Executive Vice President and General Counsel of MCI/WorldCom. There, she served as the Chief Legal Officer in the company's restructuring from 2003 until its acquisition by Verizon in 2006.

Previously, she was Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Sears, Roebuck and Co. There, Ms. Kelly restructured the legal and compliance teams in the wake of the company's Bankruptcy Code issues in its credit card division.

Before her tenure at Sears, Ms. Kelly served as the Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Fannie Mae. At Fannie Mae, she centralized the company's legal and compliance function and upgraded the talent across Fannie Mae's five offices nationwide.

Earlier in her career, Ms. Kelly was a partner and associate with Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (now Wilmer Hale) where her practice spanned several areas of law, including regulation of financial institutions and securities firms, corporate and securities and intellectual property. Ms. Kelly was also associated with Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, of Dallas, where her practice encompassed general and business litigation.

Ms. Kelly received her law degree magna cum laude from George Washington University, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif and member of the Law Review. She received her undergraduate degree cum laude from Trinity University in Washington, DC.

She serves as a director of O-I, the world's largest manufacturer of glass packaging and Huntington Ingalls Industries. Ms. Kelly is also a member of the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Law School. She is co-chair of the Washington Lawyers’ Committee (WLC), past chair of Equal Justice Works and a director of Lawyers for Children America and the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR).