“A legendary first-chair litigator”

– Reuters

“One of the World’s Leading Litigation Lawyers”

- Euromoney Institutional Investor

John B. Quinn is the chairman and founding partner of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, the largest law firm in the world devoted solely to business litigation and arbitration, and is regarded as one of the top trial lawyers in the world.

— Notable Representations —

Lead trial counsel for Samsung Electronics Company in Apple Inc.’s “holy war” against the Android smartphone operating system

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Lead counsel for Nestlé USA, Inc. and Nestlé Dreyer’s Ice Cream Company

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Lead trial counsel for an aerospace company in the retrial of a tortious interference suit brought against it

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Lead trial counsel for Avery Dennison Corporation in a theft of trade secret case

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Lead counsel for General Motors in an action against Volkswagen

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Lead trial counsel for two former Bertelsmann AG executives against Bertelsmann AG

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Lead counsel for Genentech against Columbia University which had demanded that Genentech license a patent for a widely used recombinant DNA technique

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Lead trial counsel for Occidental Petroleum in an insurance coverage case regarding business interruption losses

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Mr. Quinn represented the Lehman Brothers Creditors’ Committee and the Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. estates in bankruptcy proceedings

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Lead trial counsel for Southern California real estate developer Donald Bren in a jury trial against his children and their mother

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Lead trial counsel for the University of Southern California in the retrial of a case brought by a dental implant manufacturer

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Lead counsel for plaintiffs Dr. Enrico Bondi, Extraordinary Commissioner of Parmalat S.P.A.

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Lead counsel for Mattel of a $3 billion Sherman Act suit brought by a competitor

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Lead counsel for a former director and majority shareholder of Peregrine Systems, Inc. in multiple federal class claims

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Lead appellate counsel for Samsung in a ground breaking decision issued by the Federal Circuit Court of Appeal

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Lead counsel for the University of Southern California (“USC”) in an arbitration brought by its former head football coach, Steve Sarkissian, after he was terminated in October 2015

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Lead counsel for Michael Milken in a $135 million suit brought by Ronald Perelman’s companies alleging fraud in an educational software company transaction

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Lead trial counsel for Japanese entertainment company Tsuburaya Productions Co., Ltd.

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Represented two dozen hedge fund plaintiffs in the Yosemite v. Citibank action in the Enron MDL

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