Garland Kelley is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Irell & Manella LLP and is a member of the firm's litigation workgroup.

Mr. Kelley's primary areas of practice involve securities litigation (including complex class action and derivative matters, defense of shareholder litigation against publicly-held companies and SEC-related matters) and complex commercial cases (state and federal court). 

In 2007 and 2008, Mr. Kelley was selected for inclusion in Los Angeles Magazine's Southern California "Rising Stars" in securities litigation. 

Mr. Kelley began his legal practice at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City, where he was an associate from 1999 through 2002. From 1986 through 1994, Mr. Kelley was a consultant with Accenture, working primarily on assignments in Malaysia, Indonesia and Argentina.

Mr. Kelley received his B.A. from Rice University in Houston, Texas in 1985, his M.A. from Claremont Graduate School in Claremont, California in 1996, and his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1999. Mr. Kelley served as a judicial extern for the Honorable Judge Shira A. Scheindlin of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Representative Matters

Recent engagements include the following:

• Defense of numerous clients in securities-related litigation, including complex class action and derivative lawsuits

• Investigation or defense of "options backdating" issues involving public companies or senior executives, including civil and criminal matters

• Defense of numerous multi-jurisdictional matters resisting preliminary injunctions/TROs in connection with mergers, acquisitions or going-private transactions

• Defense of apartment management companies in multiple state court lawsuits regarding potential application of California statute regulating "investigative" reports, including novel class certification issues

• Defense of multi-jurisdictional securities matter arising out of large-scale municipal bond defaults

• Defense or prosecution of complex statutory, common law and transnational claims

Bar & Court Admissions

• 2003, California; 2000, New York
• U.S. District Court, Central and Northern Districts of California
• U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit