R. Brian Timmons is the Global Head of Complex Litigation and Chair of the Private Investment Fund Litigation Practice for Quinn Emanuel. A highly regarded trial lawyer with a national litigation practice, Timmons has tried many cases to verdict in multiple locations throughout the United States, including New York, Delaware, and California. Timmons has also represented clients in legal proceedings and arbitrations in venues throughout the world. Clients praise him for his brilliance, highly strategic style, tenacity, judgment, and skill in the courtroom.
Timmons has represented clients from nearly every industry and in nearly every litigation setting. Timmons specializes, however, in complex disputes involving finance, accounting, or corporate governance. His practice includes commercial litigation, partnership disputes, M&A litigation, accounting firm liability cases, securities and commodities litigation, creditors’ rights, avoidance and other bankruptcy-related litigation, market manipulation, SEC enforcement actions, structured financial product litigation, including ISDA disputes, battles for corporate control, boardroom and breach of fiduciary duty disputes, and trade secret and employee mobility litigation. Timmons regularly represents investment funds and their managers, financial institutions, public and private corporations (both foreign and domestic), creditor committees, litigation trusts, audit committees, boards of directors, family offices, and high net worth individuals, including well-known celebrities.
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Timmons was born and raised in rural Idaho and attended Duke University on a football scholarship. Timmons studied finance and economics at the London School of Economics, was a Teaching Fellow at Harvard College, and graduated from Harvard Law School with honors, where he also served as the Managing Editor of an academic law journal. He has been published in The Wall Street Journal and Newsweek. Timmons currently serves on the Harvard Law School Leadership Council and is engaged in a variety of pro bono matters. Before joining Quinn Emanuel, he participated in the federal indigent defense panel program and was a partner at Latham & Watkins.
