Practice Focus

Litigation

Angel A. Garganta represents businesses, including financial institutions, manufacturers, and service companies, in a broad range of unfair business practice/consumer class actions and complex commercial disputes. He is a recognized authority on California's consumer protection laws and uses his experience to achieve cost-effective, efficient results for his clients through the early and strategic use of motions to dispose of cases or to position them for favorable settlements.

Mr. Garganta clerked for the Honorable Marilyn Hall Patel, United States District Judge for the Northern District of California. He has served as President of the San Francisco Bank Attorneys Association, on the Board of Directors of the Bar Association of San Francisco, on the Executive Committee of its Litigation Section, and on the Editorial Advisory Board of California Forms of Pleading and Practice (Matthew Bender, ed.). Mr. Garganta has repeatedly been recognized as a Northern California "Super Lawyer" by his peers and Law & Politics and San Francisco magazines. He was Associate Editor of the California Law Review at University of California Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) and is fluent in Spanish and French.

Representative Matters

Consumer Products and Services

• Defending a national restaurant system in multiple consumer class actions nationally alleging false advertising about the nutritional content of its menu items
• Defending a yogurt manufacturer in multiple consumer class actions nationally alleging false advertising about the health benefits of its probiotic products
• Defending a manufacturer of Bluetooth headsets in federal multidistrict false advertising and unfair business practices class actions alleging failure to warn consumers of hearing loss risk
• Defending a national retailer of nutritional supplements in multiple consumer fraud and unfair business practices class actions concerning product quality
• Defending a printer manufacturer in a private attorney general action alleging misleading print speed ratings
• Defending a prescription drug manufacturer in a products liability class action alleging misleading labeling
• Defending a major real estate management company in several tenant class actions challenging its application and security deposit practices
• Representing a major French food and beverage producer as plaintiff in a multijurisdictional international commercial litigation against its Chinese joint venture partners

Financial Services

• Defending a national motor vehicle finance company in a nationwide class action alleging false advertising and unfair business practices regarding its extended service plans
• Defending a major national bank in an unfair business practices class action alleging violation of consumer privacy rights
• Representing a California state agency as plaintiff in foreclosure and receivership proceedings against a defaulting borrower, recovering nearly US$17 million
• Defeating a multimillion-dollar lender-liability cross-claim on summary judgment
• Achieving a no-payment settlement for a major national bank in a mortgage lending assignee liability and unfair business practices class action
• Defending a major bank in an unfair business practices and fraud class action, resulting in a favorable settlement after fraud claim was dismissed