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Sasson, Elan
Direct Tel: +61 2 9146 3543
Sydney
Tel: +61 2 9146 3500 Fax: +61 2 9146 3600

Elan Sasson is a Partner in Quinn Emanuel’s Sydney office. His practice has a dual-focus in representing funds and financial services clients in legal disputes and in driving or advising on strategic workouts and corporate insolvencies (with a focus on back-end disputes, investigations and recoveries).  Elan has experience across a range of industries, and, harnessing his background in commerce, brings unique and business-oriented commercial acumen to engagements. 

Prior to joining Quinn Emanuel, Elan worked as a litigator at an international law firm, and, earlier, was appointed and worked as Associate to the Hon. Justice M J Beazley AO on the New South Wales Court of Appeal (the now Governor of New South Wales).

Elan was a founding Committee Member of the Turnaround Management Association’s NextGen Committee in Australia.

Elan has been recognized by Legal 500 Asia Pacific (2025) for Restructuring and Insolvency, Dispute Resolution: Litigation, and White-collar Crime, and ranked by Chambers Asia-Pacific for Dispute Resolution. He was also highlighted as an "Up and Coming" professional in Chambers Global for Dispute Resolution (Australia). Previously ranked by Lawdragon 500 Global Financial (2024) for Insolvency Litigation, with Chambers Global highlighting him as an "exceptional and commercially pragmatic litigator who is a pleasure to work with.

  • Aurizon Holdings Limited
  • ICICI Bank Limited
  • Macquarie Capital (Australia) Limited
  • Ellerston Capital Limited
  • KordaMentha Restructuring
  • Yancoal Australia Limited
  • University of Technology Sydney
    (LL.B., 2009)
    • HWL Ebsworth Prize
    • Mallesons Stephen Jaques Senior Mooting: First Place
  • University of New South Wales
    (B.Comm, Accounting & Business Law, 2005)
    • Dean Merit Listing, UWS
  • Supreme Court of New South Wales
  • The High Court of Australia
  • Ranked by Chambers Asia-Pacific for Dispute Resolution, 2025
  • Ranked by Lawdragon 500 Global Financial, Insolvency Litigation, 2024
  • Ranked by Chambers Global for Dispute Resolution (Australia): Up and Coming
    • "Elan is an exceptional and commercially pragmatic litigator who is a pleasure to work with."
  • Recognized by Legal 500 Asia Pacific for Restructuring and Insolvency, Recommended Lawyer, 2025
  • Recognized by Legal 500 Asia Pacific for Dispute Resolution: Litigation, Recommended Lawyer, 2025
  • Recognized by Legal 500 Asia Pacific for White-collar crime, Recommended Lawyer, 2025
  • B Deleuil, E Sasson and J Oakley, ‘Angels on your shoulders: observations on private equity involvement in Australian distressed debt scenarios’ [2021] (Oct) Financier Worldwide Magazine 65
  • Co-presenter, Australian Restructuring Insolvency & Turnaround Association, presentation on the future of the Australian resources sector, 31 May 2017 (jointly presented with Fort Street Advisors).
  • Kaye (SC) R and Sasson E, Voluntary Administration: No Escape from Judgment in the District Court, Law Society of NSW Journal, May 2015.
  • O’Brien M, Walter D and Sasson E, Solicitation payments for bondholders permissible, Lexology, 2013.
  • Walter D and Busa S, A get out of gaol free card for landlords? Reviewing the High Court decision in Willmott Growers Inc v Willmott Forests Ltd [2013] HCA 15., Lexology, 2013 (contributing).
  • The Hon. Justice M J Beazley AO, Natural Justice: New South Wales cases in a Commonwealth context, AGS Administrative Law Symposium, 2010 (contributing).
  • Fmr Committee Member, NextGen Turnaround Management Association (Australian chapter)
  • Member, Turnaround Management Association
  • Member, Law Society of New South Wales
  • Associate Member, Australian Restructuring Insolvency and Turnaround Association