Silpa Maruri is a partner in Quinn Emanuel’s New York office and Co-Chair of the firm’s Delaware Practice. Silpa has extensive experience in a broad range of high-stakes matters, including public and private deal-related litigation, corporate governance actions, and commercial contract disputes.
Silpa recently served as lead counsel in a class action on behalf of Dell stockholders relating to a 2018 stock-for-stock exchange, resulting in a historic settlement of $1 billion, which, if approved, will be the largest class action settlement in any state court. Silpa’s recent representative matters also include several deal-related disputes regarding corporate acquisitions, a shareholder-dispute regarding corporate control of a family-owned enterprise, commercial contract disputes relating to investor exit rights, and matters involving financial fraud.
Silpa was recognized by Law360 in 2021 as a “Rising Star” and was twice named “Litigator of the Week” by the American Lawyer in 2022. Silpa received her B.A. with honors from the University of Chicago and her J.D., magna cum laude, from Cornell Law School. Prior to joining the firm, Silpa worked as a law clerk in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
- Crestview Partners
- Express Scripts, Inc.
- Core Litigation Trust
- Forest Laboratories
- Sandoz
- Infrassure
- Dorco Company
- Obtained trial victory for a major private equity fund in a $400 million dispute in Delaware Chancery Court concerning portfolio company corporate governance and exit rights.
- Represented Express Scripts and United BioSource Corp. in an $80 million dispute pending in Delaware Superior Court involving the sale of a healthcare business.
- Represented Core Litigation Trust in $240 million dispute pending in New York state court alleging tortious interference with contract.
- Represented foreign manufacturer in arbitration concerning scope of settlement agreement.
- Obtained affirmance from the Second Circuit in Infrassure Ltd. v. First Mutual Transportation Assur. Co., a case of first impression in the reinsurance industry concerning the proper interpretation of a reinsurance certificate.
- Obtained dismissal of claims alleged against Sandoz AG, Sandoz International GmbH, and two individuals in New York state litigation arising out of the merger of Sandoz Inc. and Oriel Therapeutics, Inc.
- Obtained summary judgment dismissing claims of conspiracy against reinsurer National Indemnity in Ford Motor Co. v. National Indemnity (E.D. Va.), a case where plaintiff challenged a loss portfolio reinsurance structure.
- Represented individual in two libel suits in the Southern District of New York.
- Insurance & Reinsurance Litigation
- Intellectual Property Litigation
- Trademark, Trade Dress, Unfair Competition/False Advertising, and Publicity Rights Litigation
- Investment Fund Litigation
- Mergers & Acquisitions Litigation
- Product Liability & Mass Torts Litigation
- International Arbitration
- Delaware Practice
- Cornell Law School
- (J.D., magna cum laude, 2011)
- Order of the Coif
- Cornell Law Review:
- Articles Editor
- Articles Editor
- University of Chicago
- (B.A., English, with General and Departmental Honors, 2006)
- Phi Beta Kappa
- The State Bar of New York
- United States District Court:
- Southern District of New York
- Law Clerk to the Honorable Legrome D. Davis:
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 2011-2012
- Recognized by Lawdragon 500, Financial Litigation, 2023
- Named Litigator of the Week by The American Lawyer in September, 2022
- Selected by Law360 as a Private Equity Rising Star, 2021
- Firm Memorandum, “Attorney-Client Privilege in the Digital Boardroom: What Companies Need to Know About the Delaware Court of Chancery’s Recent Applications of the Asia Global Test to Better Protect their Directors’ Privileged Communications” (May 2022).
- Silpa Maruri and Owen Roberts, Recurring Themes in COVID-19 Busted Deal Litigation, Review of Securities & Commodities Regulation (September 22, 2021).
- Guest Speaker, 33rd Annual Tulane Corporate Law Institute (March 11-12, 2021).
- Member, South Asian Bar Association of North America
- Member, International Bar Association