Emily Kapur

Emily Kapur’s practice focuses on representing financial services, fintech, and crypto clients in complex litigation.  Her PhD in financial economics and extensive trial record position Emily as a particular force in expert witness strategy and she excels at making the worlds of academia and finance persuasive in court.

A considerable portion of Emily’s practice is dedicated to crypto and fintech litigation, including in matters involving multibillion-dollar damages.  She has achieved successful results across the country defending securities class action suits; representing companies in bankruptcy; litigating commercial contract disputes; pursuing plaintiff-side actions; and advising projects analyzing crypto-related litigation and regulatory risks. 

Emily also has substantial experience with financial distress, insolvency, valuation, accounting, and M&A disputes, particularly in Delaware and New York.  She played a leading role in the Twitter v. Musk litigation and other broken-deal disputes, and has litigated on behalf of the estates of FTX, Silicon Valley Bank (though the FDIC as receiver), and Lehman Brothers, recovering billions of dollars for creditors and affected parties.

Those Emily has represented have commended her as an “incredible” and “uniquely overqualified” financial litigator who “holds opposing parties’ feet to the fire.” Her work addressing the “novel challenges” posed by crypto was praised by a presiding judge as “extraordinary.”  Emily has been recognized as a Fintech Rising Star by Law360, a Next Generation crypto and fintech litigator by Lawdragon, and a California “Lawyer on the Fast Track” by Law.com.

Before joining Quinn Emanuel, Emily served as an expert witness and helped direct expert-witness strategy for high-profile litigation matters.  She received her B.A. from Stanford University; her M.Sc. from the London School of Economics, where she was a Marshall Scholar; her PhD from Stanford University; and her J.D. from Stanford Law School.  Emily’s PhD research focused on bank failures and the management of financial services firms in bankruptcy.