David Cannon is a partner in the Government Contracts, Investigations & International Trade Practice Group in the firm's San Francisco office.
Mr. Cannon handles high-stakes litigation, including banking, commercial litigation and intellectual property disputes. In banking-related matters, he has handled securities fraud claims, as well as mortgage and lender disputes stemming from the financial crisis. This work has included large scale class actions in federal and California state courts. With commercial disputes, he has helped technology companies, manufacturers, investors, insurers and project sponsors successfully defeat tort, unfair competition, false advertising, product defect, construction defect, insurance coverage and environmental contamination claims.
His intellectual property experience has included trade secret and trademark matters as well as licensing issues and contract disputes. He has a keen understanding of the business challenges technology companies face when their core intellectual property is at stake. His IP litigation cases have included numerous multi-million dollar claims.