Emily Kapur

Emily is a partner in Quinn Emanuel’s Silicon Valley office, co-chair of the firm’s Blockchain and Digital Assets practice, and lead counsel in numerous shareholder litigation and securities matters. She holds a Stanford PhD in financial economics and a courtroom track record across numerous trials of securing defense-side dismissals and plaintiff-side wins.

Emily has been instrumental in building the firm’s crypto practice from a single matter in 2017 into an award-winning group with dozens of active matters and marquee clients taking on the fights that shape the industry.

She is also recognized for her distinct expertise in financial markets, and regularly represents global companies, litigation trusts, executives, and investors in high-stakes financial, securities, shareholder, and corporate disputes.

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 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 has served as lead or co-lead counsel in an array of high-stakes cases including:

• Financial Institution, Securities & Corporate Disputes: Leads securities and derivative litigation for Silicon Valley battery company Enovix, including securing a crucial judgment on the pleadings and preparing the remaining case for trial; represents Endeavor and individual defendants in Delaware’s largest-ever appraisal case and related securities litigation; represents the FDIC in eight- and nine-figure matters arising from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank; represents several other Silicon Valley companies in securities and derivative litigation; represented Elon Musk in his $44 billion battle regarding his purchase of Twitter; and represented Snow Phipps in its path-breaking effort to force the closing of a broken M&A deal, as well as several other clients facing market-moving M&A disputes.
• 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; represented Binance’s former CEO in an SEC enforcement action dismissed with prejudice; 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; co-lead counsel in several crypto founder disputes won at trial; and won the bellwether dismissal in the first of eleven simultaneous crypto securities class actions.

Emily’s courtroom advocacy is matched by her ability to guide clients through sensitive board-level and regulatory crises. Her approach combines rigorous economic analysis with practical business judgment, making her a valued advisor to leaders navigating bet-the-company disputes.

Emily has been repeatedly recognized with awards from publications such as Benchmark Litigation, Law360, Lawdragon, and the California Legal Awards for her leadership in financial markets, 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.