Jason Gray

For over 20 years Jason has advised individuals, boards, and companies in complex and high stakes white-collar crime matters and civil enforcement proceedings, government inquiries, anti-corruption commission proceedings, cross-border and regulatory investigations, as well as litigation in federal and state courts.  He advises clients on a broad range of white-collar and regulatory subject areas, including anti-bribery and corruption, economic and trade sanctions, extradition, money laundering, modern slavery, corporate fraud and employee misconduct, and financial services misconduct (including allegations of insider trading and market manipulation).    

Jason’s litigation practice focuses on representing companies and individuals in federal and state courts and administrative tribunals. He has been trusted by clients in relation to bet-the-company litigation, significant shareholder and joint venture disputes, trade secret theft litigation, contentious employment matters, and administrative and judicial review matters. 

Jason has been consistently recognized as a leading individual in Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, Global Investigations Review GIR100, and Best Lawyers for Litigation, White Collar Crime and Corporate Investigations and  Anti-Bribery and Corruption. Client testimonials state:

• “Jason is fantastic. He's super responsive, helpful and thoughtful. As someone we could rely on for a well-thought-through and sensible steer in a touchy and sensitive factual situations, his service was excellent.” 
• “[Jason and his team] team ha[ve] provided high-quality advice on internal investigations in India.  The location of the team combined with having US qualified and highly-experienced lawyers in the APAC region makes them an ideal choice for anything FCPA-related.  They team communicates extremely well and are pragmatic in their advice and approach to complex investigations.  They are flexible and open to finding solutions to manage their work in a cost-effective way.”
• “Quinn Emanuel provided advice and document preparation for an industry inquiry. The team was very personable and responsive, highly attentive, and delivered strong outputs. Jason Gray stood out for his knowledge, responsiveness and support throughout the process.”

He also wins high praise from clients as being able to combine “deep substantive knowledge with a pragmatism" that is particularly helpful in the strategic planning for, and conduct of, litigation and investigations, as well as being “very hands-on, very commercially aligned with [client] objectives, and very easy to work with.”

As a dual-qualified lawyer with years of experience practicing in the United States, Jason is also a recognized market leader in the Asia-Pacific region in the area of FCPA enforcement, compliance and regulation, and U.S. sanctions and export controls. His experience under the FCPA, UK Bribery Act, Australian Criminal Code and similar laws includes assisting clients with government-initiated and internal investigations throughout the Asia Pacific region.  He has led investigations in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Papua New Guinea, India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Cambodia, Japan, Laos, China, South Korea, Australia, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. In addition, Jason also has considerable experience in Africa (particularly South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Angola, Mozambique and Egypt) and South America (particularly, Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela). Jason is also recognized for his significant expertise in the development and implementation of ABC, sanctions and AML compliance programs, policies and structures designed to prevent and detect potential violations of law, as well as in the conduct of compliance-related due diligence investigations of business partners and third parties.

Jason joined Quinn Emanuel from another global law firm where he led that firms white collar crime and investigations practice throughout the Asia-Pacific. He previously spent close to a decade in the New York office of a U.S.-headquartered global law firm where he was a counsel in the white-collar crime and government enforcement practice group of that firm. Jason has also spent time as an enforcement attorney at Australia’s corporate and markets regulator, and at the beginning of his legal career clerked for the Chief Justice of the Federal Court.