Notable Representation:

Lead counsel for General Motors in an action against Volkswagen

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Lead counsel for General Motors in an action against Volkswagen, certain VW directors and officers, and GM’s former head of sourcing for stealing secret GM documents.

Working closely with in house counsel from GM and lawyers in Germany, Mr. Quinn’s team defeated all of Volkswagen’s jurisdictional and substantive motions.

On the eve of the Volkswagen chairman’s deposition, Mr. Quinn obtained a $1.1 billion settlement for General Motors.

— Other notable representations —

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

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

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

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

Lead counsel for General Motors in an action against Volkswagen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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