Amanda Bonn is a partner with Susman Godfrey and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Described by clients in Chambers USA 2024 rankings as “really good on her feet,” “very smart and capable,” and “excellent in trial and cross-examination,” Bonn handles some of the most groundbreaking and newsworthy litigation in California and across the country.
Bonn has been recognized as one of 100 Top Women Lawyers in California by The Daily Journal, a “Leading Litigator” in California by Chambers and Partners, a Litigation Trailblazer by the National Law Journal (ALM), and among the 500 Leading Litigators and 500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers nationwide by Lawdragon.
Bonn’s unique ability to master diverse subject matters has allowed her to successfully represent both plaintiffs and defendants in a wide variety of practice areas including antitrust, appellate, class action, employment, intellectual property, privacy, qui tam, and securities litigation. Bonn’s versatility is evident in her wide-ranging practice in cases with hundreds of millions or billions of dollars at stake
CUTTING-EDGE CASES
Bonn takes on formidable opponents in cases that are shaping the future of business and industry.
In 2025, Bonn, serving as co-lead counsel, won a $425 million jury verdict for a class of millions of Plaintiffs who allege that Google collects users’ Internet and application activity even when users turn Google’s “Web & App Activity” button off. After a nearly three-week trial, the jury deliberated for 10 hours over two days before reaching its verdict in a matter regarding allegations that Google unlawfully saved and used information about consumers’ activities on third-party apps, even though the users opted out of tracking.
Bonn is equally adept at defending parties on the other side of the “v.” Before the same Court in which she represents plaintiffs with privacy claims, Bonn simultaneously leads the defense of the world’s leading commodity trading firm, Vitol Inc., in an antitrust case alleging a conspiracy to inflate California gasoline prices over a two-year period.
In another newsworthy matter, Bonn was tapped to defend Flutter Entertainment in a multi-billion-dollar dispute with Fox Sports concerning an option to purchase a stake in the leading U.S. sports betting firm FanDuel Group. Bonn secured a favorable award for Flutter when an arbitrator in New York nearly doubled the exercise price its opponent, FOX Corporation, sought for its option to acquire 18.6% of Flutter’s portfolio company, FanDuel Group. At the time of the decision, this equated to a valuation for FanDuel of $22 billion and an option exercise price of $4.1 billion for FOX — nearly twice the amount that FOX argued it should be required to pay. The arbitrator also rejected FOX’s claim that Flutter had not provided commercially reasonable resources to the Fox Bet business.
NBCUniversal hired Bonn to turn things around after its subsidiary, Universal Cable Productions, lost a major insurance dispute with Atlantic Specialty Insurance Co. As lead appellate counsel, Bonn turned a total loss into a complete victory, obtaining a widely-covered and precedent-setting insurance win at the Ninth Circuit. s co-lead trial counsel, Bonn continued racking up victories in the district court upon remand, securing a rare plaintiff-side summary judgment on liability, and positioning the case for a trial solely on the issues of damages and whether the insurance company acted in bad faith. The night before trial in which Bonn was slated to deliver closing arguments, the case settled on confidential terms.
Updated Oct 2025
