Melissa Fu

Melissa Fu is an associate in Quinn Emanuel’s New York office.  She litigates complex commercial disputes, intellectual property litigation, class action, M&A disputes, government inquiries and investigations, and employment matters, in federal and state courts.  Her practice spans across a broad variety of industries, such as financial services, private equity, technology, AI, blockchain, healthcare, and gaming.  Melissa represents both companies and individuals through trial, arbitration, mediation, and on appeals,  in relation to breach of contract, investor or shareholder disputes, breach of fiduciary duties, distressed investment, copyright, patent, and trade secret disputes, among others.  Many of the disputes she counsels are cross-border in nature, including those involving China-based corporations, as she also speaks Mandarin Chinese.

In Melissa’s litigation practice, she also draws on her past experience as an investment funds associate at another global law firm’s New York office, where she advised private funds, registered funds, and management companies with fund formation, SEC regulatory compliance and Investment Advisers Act, annual reports, shareholder disputes, as well as the negotiation of the LPA, PPM, and subscription documents.

Prior to joining the Firm, Melissa received a J.D. degree from Columbia Law School, where she was named a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and was the Managing Editor of Columbia Journal of Asian Law.  She served as a judicial intern to the Honorable Laura Taylor Swain, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. She worked as a research assistant in editing a Restatement for the American Law Institute (ALI).  Also, Melissa has a pro bono practice involving Title VII employment discrimination, FTCA claims on behalf of refugees, as well as shelter reforms in class action lawsuit.  Prior to law school, she worked as a litigation paralegal at another global law firm.