Tony counsels financial services providers on compliance issues, including military lending laws, defends clients facing government investigations, examinations and enforcement actions, and defends individual and class action lawsuits brought by consumers. Clients appreciate Tony's collaborative, common-sense and cost-effective approach to evaluating and solving problems.
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Tony works behind the scenes as well as out front to help financial institutions successfully navigate Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) investigations. He has significant experience defending clients in individual and class action lawsuits filed by consumers, and he has regularly managed teams of attorneys defending large portfolios of related cases.
Tony also helps financial services institutions in a wide variety of other government investigations, examinations, and enforcement actions.
Financial institutions routinely turn to Tony for guidance on compliance matters, including compliance with military lending laws, adequacy of consumer disclosures and agreements, arbitration agreements, credit reporting, fair lending, and navigating state and federal UDAAP/UDAP laws.
Tony has represented clients before the Utah and Nevada Supreme Courts, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Third, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits, and the U.S. Supreme Court. In addition to judicial and administrative proceedings, he has substantial experience resolving disputes through mediation and arbitration.
Representative matters may include engagements before joining Troutman Pepper.
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09.19.23
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06.23.23
Supreme Court Holds That Litigation is Automatically Stayed Pending Appeal of Order Denying Motion to Compel Arbitration
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