Maaren Shah is a partner in the New York office of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, and also serves as the Founding Co-Chair of the firm’s Art Litigation and Disputes Practice and Co-Chair of the firm’s Insurance Practice. She specializes in high-stakes litigation and complex legal disputes, often involving high-profile cases and crisis situations. She also frequently acts as a strategic counselor on her clients’ challenging and non-public business or legal issues. She focuses her practice on business and commercial litigation, as well as arts, fashion, media and entertainment matters. She has been recognized, among many other awards, by the Lawdragon 500 as a Leading Litigator in America (2024-2025) and Leading Global Litigator (2021, 2023, 2024), as well as a Leading Energy Lawyer (2025) and a Leading Global Entertainment, Sports & Media Lawyer (2025); ranked by Chambers USA in Litigation: General Commercial (2024), and named by The Best Lawyers in America for Art Law (2020, 2021). She graduated with distinction from Stanford Law School and clerked for the Honorable Robert D. Sack on the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. She also presently serves as a visiting faculty member and a member of the Board of Visitors at Stanford Law School.