Emily Kapur

Emily is co-managing partner of Quinn Emanuel's Silicon Valley office, co-head of artificial intelligence, and co-chair of the firm's crypto practice.  She is lead counsel in high-stakes financial, securities, shareholder, and corporate disputes, and a regular strategic counselor to Boards and executives facing bet-the-company problems. She holds a Stanford Ph.D. in economics and a courtroom track record in California, New York, and Delaware across numerous trials of securing defense-side dismissals and plaintiff-side wins.

Her work addressing the "novel challenges" of emerging technology has been praised by presiding judges as "extraordinary" and demonstrating "creativity and sophistication," while clients commend her "outstanding" ability to combine academic rigor with courtroom instincts as an "incredible" mix that makes her a "uniquely overqualified" financial litigator who "holds opposing parties' feet to the fire."

Emily's matters have included:

• Financial, Securities & Corporate Disputes: Leads shareholder litigation for Silicon Valley company Enovix, achieving a rare defeat of class certification and judgment on the pleadings; co-lead counsel for the FDIC in defeating a $500 million case against foreign hedge funds emerging from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank; represents Endeavor executives in Delaware's largest-ever appraisal case and related shareholder litigation; represents several other Bay Area companies in securities and derivative litigation; represented Elon Musk in his $44 billion battle regarding his purchase of Twitter.
• Crypto and Fintech Litigation: Co-lead counsel in defending multiple securities class actions for Dfinity, securing precedential wins at the pleading stage, class certification, summary judgment, and on appeal; led a Morrison-focused strategy that secured dismissal in SEC v. Heart, the only SEC defeat in a crypto unregistered security case; represented Binance's former CEO in an SEC enforcement action dismissed with prejudice; co-lead counsel in multiple FTX matters, including multi-billion dollar claims on behalf of the FTX debtors; lead counsel on multiple disputes arising from the Genesis and Celsius bankruptcies; winning trial counsel in several crypto founder disputes; and won the bellwether dismissal in the first of eleven simultaneous crypto securities class actions.

Emily has been repeatedly recognized with awards from publications such as Law.com, Benchmark Litigation, Law360, Lawdragon, and the California Legal Awards for her leadership in shareholder, fintech, and crypto litigation. She received her B.A., Ph.D., and J.D. from Stanford University and her M.Sc. from the London School of Economics as a Marshall Scholar.