Dr. Adler is a dual-qualified attorney with trial and appellate experience in the United States and Germany. His practice focuses on complex national and international commercial, antitrust, competition, intellectual property, and white-collar litigation and arbitration.
Prior to joining Quinn Emanuel in New York, Dr. Adler worked at the firm's Hamburg and Zurich offices where he inter alia represented leading international tech companies in connection with the “smartphone wars.” He also advised several banks in the context of the U.S. Department of Justice and IRS criminal investigations into Swiss Banks’ U.S. cross-border private banking business as well as in connection with an SEC investigation into one of the bank’s precious metal trading.
Dr. Adler taught at the University of Hamburg and has published a number of books and articles on international litigation, intellectual property, and trade matters. His dissertation on 28 U.S.C. § 1782(a) - which discusses the mechanisms that allow foreign litigants to obtain discovery in the United States for use in foreign proceedings - has been acclaimed as “highly impressive,” containing an “immaculate analysis” and being “an enrichment to the library of every law firm or party who has practical contacts with the U.S. discovery system.”
- Fordham University School of Law
(LL.M., cum laude, 2011) - State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Dusseldorf Court of Appeals, Germany
(Second State Examination, with honors, 2009) - Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Germany
(PhD in Law (Dr. iuris), magna cum laude, 2013; First State Examination, 2007) - University of Bayreuth, Germany
(Law & Economics (“Wirtschaftsjurist”), 2007)
The State Bar of New York; The German Bar (Hanseatische Rechtsanwaltskammer Hamburg)
- German
- English
- Extraterritorial US-Discovery for Arbitration and Litigation Abroad, German Journal for Comparative Law (ZVglRWiss), December 2021
- Post Daimler – Why foreign companies still need to fear U.S. courts' jurisdiction, German Journal for International Law & Litigation (IPRax), May 2018
- The enforcement of U.S. secondary sanctions within the EU – how defenseless is the EU?, Duncker & Humblot, August 2016
- Step towards the end of the German-American “conflict of law“? - About the planned limitation of Germany’s blocking statute regarding extraterritorial discovery requests of U.S. courts, German Journal for International Law & Litigation (IPRax), August 2015
- Discover the opportunities – U.S. discovery for litigation abroad, Journal of the German-American Law Society (ZDAR), December 2014
- Use of the U.S. Discovery System in German Patent Litigation, Dissertation, Duncker & Humblot, August 2014
- Intellectual Property and the Internet: A Global Guide to Protecting Intellectual Property Online, co-author, Globe Law and Business, May 2014
- University of Hamburg (Fall 2014), Lecturer, U.S. Intellectual Property Law
- Cornell Law School 7th Inter-University Graduate Student Conference (2011), Speaker, International Litigation