Heather Christenson is an associate in Quinn Emanuel’s New York office. She joined the firm in 2013. Her practice focuses on structured finance litigation. Since 2014, Ms. Christenson has represented a litigation trust in approximately 85 lawsuits seeking indemnity damages from correspondent lenders arising from the defendant lenders’ sale of defective mortgage loans. She has participated in over 60 mediations and other litigation on behalf of a litigation trust that resulted in recoveries of over $1.1 billion to date.
- Fordham University School of Law
(J.D., magna cum laude, 2013)- Order of the Coif
- Order of the Coif
- University of Notre Dame
(B.A., Political Science and Spanish, 2009)
The State Bar of New York
- Spanish
- Co-Author, “The Pitfalls Of SEC's Crypto Regulation By Enforcement,” Law360, January 10, 2020.