Marcelo M. Bonassa handles complex commercial litigation, white collar defense, and appeals.
Prior to joining Hueston Hennigan, Mr. Bonassa served as a law clerk to the Hon. Sandra Lynch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He was also previously a litigation associate at Covington & Burling.
While in law school, Mr. Bonassa served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review and received a Dean’s Scholar Prize in several subjects. He was a summer intern in the Securities Fraud Division of the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office. Before going to law school, he worked as a consultant evaluating the adequacy of banks’ capital and risk management systems for Federal Reserve stress-testing purposes.
Mr. Bonassa speaks native-level Portuguese, fluent Spanish and French, and basic Italian.
Experience
Representing AbbVie, a defendant in the multibillion-dollar Allergan textured breast implant litigation, which involves approximately 1,700 individual lawsuits and a nationwide class action in four venues including multidistrict litigation in the District of New Jersey. The plaintiffs contend AbbVie’s BIOCELL® textured breast implants cause a rare type of cancer, and they argue AbbVie is liable under manufacturing defect, failure to warn, and misrepresentation theories.
Representing Fortune 500 insurer Genworth Financial Inc. in a putative class action in Delaware Chancery Court in which plaintiffs seek, among other relief, rescission of a major corporate transaction involving Genworth’s long-term care insurance business.
Representing Southern California Edison in litigation related to the 2020 Silverado Fire and the 2022 Fairview Fire.