With nearly two decades of expertise, Marcos D. Sasso advises large national banks, credit card issuers, and other financial services companies in all aspects of consumer financial services litigation and enforcement proceedings. Marcos defends clients in class actions and mass arbitrations, and against high-volume filers of individual consumer claims in federal and state trial and appellate courts and arbitrations across the US. Marcos routinely counsels clients on compliance with state and federal laws on debt collection, credit reporting, unfair business practices, and other consumer protection statutes.
Marcos focuses on complex commercial litigation, with an emphasis on the representation of financial services companies. Marcos advises large national banks, credit card issuers, and other lenders in class actions, regulatory enforcement proceedings, and other complex litigation and arbitration matters in California and throughout the country. He has experience with consumer financial services laws, including the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Electronic Funds Transfer Act, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, and state laws such as California's Unfair Competition Law, Consumers Legal Remedies Act, Consumer Credit Reporting Agencies Act, and Identity Theft Act.
Marcos handles matters involving overdraft practices, preemption, identity theft, credit reporting, and fair debt collection, as well as auto financing, commercial contracts, and retail banking disputes. He has served as lead counsel for financial services companies in defeating or settling class and individual claims, and has successfully argued for the enforceability of consumer arbitration agreements in trial and appellate courts.
Marcos has experience before the California trial courts and Courts of Appeal, as well as the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and California district courts. He also has defended clients in appeals before the California and Idaho Supreme Courts and the Second, Fourth and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeal.