Brittany J. Nelson

Brittany J. Nelson is a partner and a litigation attorney with Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP in Washington, D.C. She regularly represents clients in high-stakes bankruptcy litigation, including most recently Shiloh Industries, Pier 1, Toys “R” Us, Sears, GST Autoleather and Intelsat, S.A. Ms. Nelson regularly represents unsecured creditors’ committees, ad hoc committees, shareholders, chapter 7 and chapter 11 trustees, and federal court-appointed receivers in a variety of bankruptcy matters. She also has experience representing individuals, officers and directors, businesses, financial institutions, corporations, partnerships and other entities involved in commercial transactions and large bankruptcy and litigation matters, including retail, airline, automotive, coal, fraud and Ponzi scheme matters. Ms. Nelson’s practice includes restructuring work and complex commercial litigation cases in state and federal courts throughout the U.S. and internationally. Previously, she was a litigation associate with Patton Boggs, LLC and clerked for the District Court of the U.S. Virgin Islands. Ms. Nelson is admitted to practice in Virginia, the District of Columbia and Utah. She received her A.B. cum laude in history 2000 from Harvard University, where she was a Harvard National Scholar, and her J.D. cum laude in 2003 from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was a senior articles and notes editor for the American Criminal Law Review.