The litigators over at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan have put together an extraordinary trial run in busted deal litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery during the pandemic. They’ve allowed a client to walk away from a proposed deal in one instance and forced a deal to go through for another.

Chalk up another impressive pandemic-deal-gone-sideways Delaware win for Quinn, but this time for the firm’s appellate team. Our Litigators of the Week, Kathleen Sullivan, Rollo Baker and William Adams, led the firm’s effort to protect a trial win allowing Mirae Asset to walk away from a proposed deal to buy a group of luxury hotels for $5.8 billion — just the second from the Court of Chancery ever allowing a buyer to back out of a merger. The Delaware Supreme Court this week upheld that ruling in an en banc opinion — the court’s most extensive look at a deal covenant requiring a seller to operate in the ordinary course of business.