Anika Khemani

ANIKA KHEMANI focuses her practice on commercial litigation and disputes. She additionally maintains an active pro bono practice.

Anika received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was an intern for the ACLU Criminal Law Reform Project, Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, and for a civil rights and commercial litigation boutique law firm. She was also a student attorney for the Juvenile Justice Clinic and online notes editor of the American Criminal Law Review. Upon graduation, Anika received Special Pro Bono Pledge Recognition as a public interest fellow.

Anika was part of a Sidley pro bono team to help ensure that Preston High School, an all-girls, private, Catholic, college preparatory school in the Bronx, would remain open. The school, which was founded in 1947 by the Sisters of the Divine Compassion, is known for its broad curriculum and emphasis on Christian service. Following a public hearing on April 22 by the Office of the New York State Attorney General, Sidley facilitated the purchase of the school from the Sisters of the Divine Compassion by Bally’s Foundation of North America, a charitable non-profit organization, which will lease the property back to the school on highly favorable terms, with options to renew the lease upon the completion of the original term.