Portrait of Anya V. Filatovaafilatova@foxrothschild.com

Biography

Biography

Anya counsels employers on regulatory compliance across the full range of employee benefits and executive compensation matters.

Anya is well-versed in:

  • Qualified retirement plans.
  • Nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements.
  • Section 409A compliance
  • Executive compensation, including stock and profits interest arrangements.
  • Health, welfare and fringe benefits.
  • Controlled group liability.
  • Multiemployer plan withdrawal liability.
  • Benefits and compensation issues at every stage of mergers and acquisitions, from due diligence through post-closing integration, including Section 280G.
  • IRS audits of all types of benefit arrangements.

Should a dispute arise, Anya represents clients from the initiation of the matter through trial.

Anya counsels employers on regulatory compliance across the full range of employee benefits and executive compensation matters.

Anya is well-versed in:

  • Qualified retirement plans.
  • Nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements.
  • Section 409A compliance
  • Executive compensation, including stock and profits interest arrangements.
  • Health, welfare and fringe benefits.
  • Controlled group liability.
  • Multiemployer plan withdrawal liability.
  • Benefits and compensation issues at every stage of mergers and acquisitions, from due diligence through post-closing integration, including Section 280G.
  • IRS audits of all types of benefit arrangements.

Should a dispute arise, Anya represents clients from the initiation of the matter through trial.

Before Fox Rothschild

Before joining us, Anya worked in the executive compensation practice of a Big Four accounting firm, where she advised multinational clients on the tax consequences of nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements. Before that, Anya was an associate at a regional multistate law firm, after spending two summers there as a summer associate. 

During law school, Anya was a judicial extern for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia and an associate editor at West Virginia Law Review.

Bar Admissions

  • Pennsylvania
  • West Virginia

Education

  • Georgetown University Law Center (Certificate in Employee Benefits, 2025)
  • West Virginia University College of Law (J.D., Order of the Coif, 2021)
  • The Academy of Law and Management of the FPS of Russia (Jurisprudence, high honors, 2012)