Melissa Fu

Melissa Fu is an associate in Quinn Emanuel’s New York office.  Her practice encompasses complex commercial litigation, intellectual property litigation, class action, government investigations, and employment disputes in various industries, such as finance, technology, healthcare, cryptocurrency, and many others. She has represented clients in litigation in relation to breach of contract, founders’ disputes, loan repayment, copyright infringement, and trade secret misappropriation.  Melissa draws on her past experience as an investment funds associate at another international law firm in New York, where she advised private funds and registered funds companies with fund formation, SEC regulatory compliance, and shareholder disputes.

While at Columbia Law School, Melissa was named a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and was the Managing Editor of Columbia Journal of Asian Law.  She served as a judicial intern to the Honorable Laura Taylor Swain, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. She worked as a research assistant in editing a Restatement for the American Law Institute (ALI).  Melissa also has a pro bono practice, where she currently represents a client in a Title VII discrimination case.  In the past, she represented refugees for family separations at the border in the federal court, as well as a class of homeless individuals for shelter conditions in a class action lawsuit.  Prior to law school, she worked as a litigation paralegal at another global law firm.  Melissa also speaks Mandarin Chinese.