Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP  continues to enjoy a successful record on the plaintiff side, with strong investigative abilities deployed on behalf of clients in challenges to major financial institutions and tech giants. An expert in two-sided platform litigation, In New York, co-chair Sami Rashid also heads the investigations practice and is a respected authority on class certification. Also in New York is Daniel Brockett and Steig Olson, whose combined financial expertise has been integral to the firm’s work in securities and competition law. In LA, Kevin Teruya, Jeremy Andersen, and Adam Wolfson bring a breadth and depth of antitrust expertise, assisting the firm in its pursuit against major players in the financial and tech industries. In Atlanta, Debra Bernstein is a go-to for large corporate opt-out litigation and the intersectionality of IP and antitrust law.

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  • ‘Strategic and aggressive. ’

  • ‘Steig Olson is a standout antitrust litigator.' 

Key clients

  • The City of Philadelphia
  • Public School Teachers’ Pension and Retirement Fund of Chicago
  • Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association
  • Proposed Class of Aerospace Engineers
  • Proposed ATM Consumers
  • LIV Golf
  • Allianz GIS
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Work highlights

  • Reached settlement agreements with bank defendants for $580 million in cash, also securing injunctive relief providing for several important market and structural reforms of the kind rarely seen in private settlements.
  • Representing the City of Philadelphia on behalf of issuers of variable rate demand obligations who were harmed by inflated interest rates remarketed by Defendants.

Lawyers

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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Sami Rashid, John Potter

Other key lawyers

Dan Brockett, Kevin Teruya, Steig Olson, Debra Bernstein, Jeremy Andersen, Adam Wolfson, Will Sears, Alicia Cobb