Experts & Advisors
Angela Eavy
Senior Managing Director

Angela Eavy is a Senior Managing Director at Ankura based in Chicago with experience in Legal Technology & Data Analytics. Angela brings over two decades of legal expertise in e-discovery and electronic records management. She specializes in managing large-scale, cross-border discovery efforts across pharmaceutical, healthcare, technology, financial, and automotive sectors.
Experience
Angela is known for her strategic leadership in antitrust investigations, multidistrict litigations, and regulatory responses, offering tailored solutions in legal operations, risk mitigation, and cost reduction. Her approach integrates advanced technology selection, discovery planning, and multi-party coordination to deliver seamless, efficient results under pressure.
Angela is a licensed attorney with more than 20 years of experience leading strategic discovery initiatives for global corporations and their legal counsel, with a focus on regulatory compliance, litigation support, and operational transformation.
- Multinational Antitrust Investigations Angela has directed the full lifecycle of discovery for multiple Second Request reviews tied to major merger investigations. These matters required the coordination of numerous custodians across jurisdictions, extensive data processing and review workflows, and direct liaison with legal teams and regulators. She advised on privilege review protocols and contributed to regulator fact finding interviews.,
- Mass Tort and Multidistrict Litigation Leadership Angela played a central role in supporting counsel in large-scale product liability cases involving thousands of plaintiffs. She oversaw document review teams, curated litigation-ready data sets, and designed defensible workflows that met court-imposed deadlines. Her strategy often included the implementation of targeted search methodologies and advanced analytics to streamline review and reduce cost. She also prepared affidavits, privilege logs and in-camera submissions.
- Bankruptcy and Regulatory Response Matters Her project leadership includes discovery support for complex Chapter 11 filings involving simultaneous inquiry from numerous regulatory bodies and litigation stakeholders. Angela managed the consolidation of disparate data sources, established communications protocols between eight law firms, managed third party vendors, and built scalable workflows to maintain accuracy and defensibility under intense scrutiny.
- Global Investigations and Risk Mitigation Angela routinely supports global investigations where data privacy regulations, regulator expectations, and litigation hold requirements converge. She advises on discovery strategies designed to balance cross-border legal obligations with efficient execution. She has worked closely with counsel to develop technology selection frameworks, mitigate risk exposure, and cut operational spend—while maintaining regulatory alignment.
Angela previously served as an eDiscovery attorney at Sidley Austin, advising on mass tort litigation strategies and building out vendor management systems for document review operations. She managed hundreds of attorneys during high-volume review projects and pioneered knowledge management practices to enhance team efficiency.
- Education
- BA, Business, Pre Law, Michigan State University, Michigan
- JD, Law, Syracuse University College of Law, New York
- LLM, ChildLaw, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Illinois
- Certifications
- Certified Information Privacy Manager
- Affiliations
- Women in eDiscovery
- Women’s White Collar Defense Association