Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP is skilled in business litigation, with team members acting for both plaintiffs and defendants in commercial disputes and large-scale class actions. Its areas of expertise include contract, insolvency, restructuring, director’s duties and product liability claims. Michelle Fox is the founding partner of the firm’s Australia offices, and she represents large companies in commercial litigation, including mass torts and product liability. Damian Scattini is a class actions and commercial litigation specialist, and Andrew Corkhill focuses on litigation matters involving financial transactions and instruments. Elan Sasson is noted for his international practice in commercial litigation and insolvency disputes.
Testimonials
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‘Quinn Emmanuel brings a practical and collaborative approach to solving legal problems which is underpinned by exceptional legal skills. Their strengths lie in taking innovative approaches to the most complex and intractable problems. They are first-class litigators who often resolve issues prior to litigation even starting.’
‘Andrew Corkhill and Elan Sasson are extremely hard working, collaborative and attendant to the client's needs. They take a cost-efficient approach and provide a first-class product and result. They are a pleasure to work with particularly as they take a collaborative and intellectual approach to analyzing and resolving problems.’
‘Excellent firm. Great strategists and incredible attention to detail.’
‘The team adopt an extremely pragmatic and commercial lens to delivering legal advice (in a digestible way) and finding solutions - it does not feel like a one size fits all shop. They are prepared to look outside the box and test what may be possible to solve complex legal and commercial problems.’
‘Andrew Corkhill - extremely detailed, commercial, pragmatic and super smart. Approachable, responsive and easy to get hold of - he just gets "it".'
- 'Beau Deleuil is able to grasp a complex problem and break it down into a digestible and solvable issue for clients.’
‘QE work as a team and think differently to other litigation firms. First and foremost they look for a result for their client as opposed to simply commencing proceedings and running through the motions.'
Key clients
- The SoftBank Vision Funds
- Greensill Bank AG
- Everblu Capital
- Santos Limited and Santos NA Barossa
- AurizonGenesee & Wyoming
- Ardent Leisure Group
- Federal Treasury Enterprise (FKP) Sojuzplodoimport
- Federal Public Unitary External Economic Union Sojuzplodoimport (Stoli)
- Ewok Pty Ltd
- 5 Boroughs
- Sev.en Global Investments .a.s
- Hyundai and Kia
- International Capital Markets
Work highlights
- Won a case for Santos defeating an environmental challenge to the Barossa Gas Project brought by the Environmental Defenders' Office on behalf of Tiwi Islanders.
- Represented Sev.en Global Investments regarding the administration of the entity that owns the Callide C Power Station in Queensland.
- Acting for the German administrator of Greensill Bank in litigation filed in the Federal Court of Australia against insurers that wrote insurance on trade credit receivables purchased by Greensill.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Michelle Fox