Maintaining a national practice with San Francisco roots, Angel Garganta is a partner in Venable’s Commercial Litigation Practice Group and Co-Chair of the Class Action Defense Group. A nationally recognized authority on food, beverage, and supplement litigation, and consumer protection laws, Mr. Garganta’s practice has a strong focus on advertising law. He is a member of the American Law Institute, is ranked nationally by Chambers USA in the Food & Beverages: Regulatory & Litigation category, and is also AV Preeminent ® Rated by Martindale-Hubbell.
Mr. Garganta represents a variety of businesses, including manufacturers and retailers nationally and internationally in a broad range of unfair business practice/consumer class actions and complex commercial disputes. He uses his experience to achieve cost-effective and efficient results on behalf of his clients through 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 Co-Chair of the Lawyer Representative Committee for the Northern District of California, 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.).
Specialties: Complex commercial litigation, including class action defense. Consumer protection and false advertising law.
