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Adler, David B.

Dr. David B. Adler

Associate

davidadler@quinnemanuel.com
Direct Tel: +1 212-849-7305, Direct Fax: +1 212-849-7100
New York
Tel: +1 212 849 7000 Fax: +1 212 849 7100

Dr. David Adler is a dual-qualified attorney with extensive litigation and arbitration experience in the United States and Germany.  David’s practice focuses on both plaintiff and defense-side representations in high-stakes and complex litigation, with a particular focus on antitrust, unfair competition, and IP litigation, including class actions.  David has an active trial practice, and has appeared and argued in a variety of forums, including in federal and appellate courts as well as in arbitrations and mediations.  David has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch, Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Antitrust, Intellectual Property, 2024 and 2025.

Prior to joining Quinn Emanuel in New York, David worked at the firm’s Hamburg and Zurich offices where he successfully represented prominent U.S. and international technology companies in connection with the “smartphone wars” and various Swiss banks in connection with investigations conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice and other government agencies.

David taught IP courses and seminars at the University of Hamburg and has published a number of books and articles on international litigation, intellectual property, and trade matters that have been cited by courts on several occasions.  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 and 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
  • The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch, Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Antitrust, Intellectual Property, 2024 and 2025
  • 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