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Litigating a Chinese Company’s Inclusion on the Pentagon’s List of Chinese Military Affiliated Companies

2026-11-1433:17

John is joined by Derek Shaffer, partner in Quinn Emanuel’s Washington, D.C. office and Co-Chair of the firm’s Government & Regulatory Litigation practice. They discuss Quinn Emanuel client DJI’s successful legal challenge, the first of its kind, to the U.S. government’s designation of the company as a Chinese military company and the D.C. Circuit’s holding that a court may not credit classified reasoning it has not examined. DJI is the largest drone maker in the world. ...

15 Year Prosecution of Chinese State-Owned Company Dismissed After Four Days of Trial

2026-11-0651:01

John is joined by John Potter, a partner in Quinn Emanuel’s San Francisco office, and Robert P. Feldman, senior counsel in Quinn Emanuel’s Silicon Valley office. They discuss their defense of the Pangang Group, four affiliated companies owned directly or indirectly by the People’s Republic of China, in a criminal prosecution in the Northern District of California, and the service, immunity, and evidentiary rulings that shaped the case. The government accused Pangang of seeking trade secrets f...

Inside the Largest Patent Verdict Ever: Quinn Emanuel’s $5.7 Billion Win Over Apple

2026-10-3038:03

John is joined by Tigran Guledjian, Scott Watson, and Lance Yang, all partners in Quinn Emanuel’s Los Angeles office and trial counsel for Taction Technology. They discuss the $5.7 billion jury verdict their team won against Apple in a San Diego patent case, the largest patent verdict ever, and how the team won the verdict after the court excluded Taction’s damages expert in the middle of trial. Taction, a small San Diego company led by CEO John Steinberg, owns patented technology invented by...

Quinn Emanuel in China: Ten Years of Transformation

2026-10-2301:11:36

In a podcast recorded before a live audience in Shanghai, John is joined by Xiao Liu, Chair of China Practice and Chief Representative of Quinn Emanuel’s Beijing office; Yixuan Zhu, partner in Quinn Emanuel’s Beijing office; and Dr. Haiyan Tang, Chief Representative and Managing Partner of Quinn Emanuel’s Shanghai office. They discuss the firm’s first decade in mainland China, how its original business plan was overtaken by changes in Western investment, and how the practice evolved into repr...

Ant Group’s AI Revolution: Beyond Alipay

2026-10-1557:49

In an edition of Law, Disrupted from Shanghai, John is joined by Jonathan (Zhifeng) Zhou, General Counsel & Board Secretary at Ant Group. They discuss the expanding role of artificial intelligence in financial services, healthcare, and commerce, as illustrated by Ant Group’s transformation from a digital payments company into a global technology enterprise. Originally established to facilitate online shopping through Alipay, Ant expanded into providing microloans and wealth management ser...

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