Gary Ansel has extensive commercial litigation experience. He focuses his practice on business disputes, class actions, product liability, and contract matters as well as antitrust, and consumer and securities fraud. Mr. Ansel has first and second chair trail experience and has managed multi-million dollar trials and settlements.
Mr. Ansel represents small companies and nationally recognized corporations, on either the plaintiff or defense side, in complex commercial litigation matters. In a recent wrongful loan termination dispute he and his litigation team obtained a $7.2 million dollar settlement for his client. In a breach of fiduciary duty/fraudulent conveyance case, Mr. Ansel and his team filed suit on behalf of a bankruptcy trustee against a venture capital firm. That case settled for $8 million dollars. In his class action work, Mr. Ansel has helped to recover nearly $2 billion on behalf of his clients.
Mr. Ansel earned his undergraduate degree from Columbia University where was selected as one of fifteen members of the Colloquium on Language, Literature, History and Philosophy, and where he founded the John Jay Lectures in the Humanities. He obtained his Juris Doctorate from Duke University School of Law, earning honors for his work in Constitutional Law and oral advocacy.
In addition to his distinguished legal career, Mr. Ansel was a volunteer for the American Diabetes Association where he served as chair of the Arizona Legal Advocacy Committee and as a member of the National Legal Advocacy Committee. In his pro bono work he participated in two First Amendment cases heard by the United States Supreme Court.
Mr. Ansel is a member of the State Bar of Arizona.
