R. Brian Timmons is an experienced trial lawyer with a national litigation practice. He has tried many cases to verdict in multiple locations throughout the United States, including New York, Delaware, and California. In general terms, he specializes in complex legal disputes that involve finance, accounting, or corporate governance. His expertise includes securities and commodities litigation, creditors’ rights, avoidance and other bankruptcy-related litigation, fund advisor and ’40 Act matters, cases alleging market manipulation, unfair competition and anti-trust, structured financial product litigation, and general commercial disputes. He regularly represents managed funds (private equity funds, hedge funds, mutual funds) and their advisors, bondholders, financial institutions, public and private corporations (both foreign and domestic), creditor committees, litigation trusts, audit committees, boards of directors, and high net worth individuals. A significant part of Mr. Timmons’ practice over the past decade has been representing clients in large cases against global accounting firms. He has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for clients, has been on the leading edge of legal developments governing the liability of accountants and auditors, and has obtained some 9-figure settlements—a rare occurrence against these firms. Notwithstanding his success in representing plaintiffs, Mr. Timmons primarily represents defendants in a wide variety of cases. In his more than 20 years as a lawyer, he has represented clients in general business and commercial litigation, real estate litigation, class actions, internal investigations, products liability cases, employment litigation and white collar criminal matters. Clients praise him for his brilliance, judgment, and skill in the courtroom. He has been named one of the “Best Attorneys of America” by Rue Ratings and one of Southern California’s “Super Lawyers” every year from 2006 to the present by the Los Angeles Magazine. Mr. Timmons was born and raised in rural Idaho and attended Duke University on a football scholarship. He graduated from Duke in the top 2% of his class, participated in a graduate studies program in finance and economics at the London School of Economics, was a Teaching Fellow at Harvard College, and graduated from Harvard Law School with honors in 1991, where he also served as the Managing Editor of a scholarly law journal. The author of several articles, he has been published in The Wall Street Journal and Newsweek Magazine. Before joining Quinn Emanuel, he participated in the federal indigent defense panel program and was a partner at Latham & Watkins.
