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 trial and appellate practice in complex commercial litigation (state and federal court) and securities litigation (including complex class action and derivative matters, defense of shareholder litigation against publicly-held companies and SEC-related matters).  Mr. Kelley's experience includes trial, arbitration, mediation, insurance and settlement aspects, and often includes transnational elements including matters relating to Germany, Japan, China, South Korea and numerous U.S. jurisdictions.

Mr. Kelley began his legal practice at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City, where he was an associate from 1999 through 2002.  Mr. Kelley was previously a management consultant with Accenture for 8 years, working primarily on matters in Malaysia, Indonesia and Argentina.

Mr. Kelley earned his B.A. from Rice University in Houston, Texas, his M.A. from Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California, and his J.D. from Columbia Law School in New York City.  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.  In 2007 and 2008, Mr. Kelley was selected for inclusion in Los Angeles Magazine's Southern California "Rising Stars" in securities litigation.

Representative Matters

Recent engagements include the following:

• Jury and bench trials to verdict in intellectual property, complex commercial, securities and statutory matters
• 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 complex, multi-jurisdictional matters resisting preliminary injunctions / TRO's in connection with mergers, acquisitions or going-private transactions
• Defense of multiple state court lawsuits regarding potential application of California statute regulating "investigative" reports, resulting in published appellate court decision
• Defense of multi-jurisdictional securities matters arising out of large-scale municipal bond defaults, resulting in two published appellate court decisions (state and federal)
• Defense or prosecution of complex statutory, common law and transnational matters

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