Managing Partner, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan

Quinn is the founder and chair of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, a 1,000-lawyer firm, which is the largest in the world devoted to business litigation. Since its foundation in 1986, Quinn and his partners have built an institution that The Wall Street Journal has termed a “global litigation powerhouse.” It has recovered more thn $70 billion for plaintiffs and has won comparable results for defendants. The firm has recently been engaged to represent Ukraine in proceedings against Russia before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg arising from the invasion of Ukraine.

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