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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

  • Rodriguez et al. v. Google, LLC.  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.

  • In re: National Football League’s Sunday Ticket Antitrust Litigation (C.D. Cal.) Serving as co-lead trial counsel to a certified class of plaintiffs, obtained a victory after 3 weeks of trial with a jury finding the NFL engaged in a conspiracy and violated the antitrust laws through its Sunday Ticket offering.  The jury awarded $4.7 billion damages, which the trial court vacated on a post-trial motion, while leaving untouched the jury’s determination that the NFL violated two different provisions of the Sherman Act. Proceedings in the matter are ongoing. During trial, Bonn delivered Plaintiffs’ opening statement and cross-examined key witnesses, including a former senior FOX Sports executive who participated in the conspiracy and the NFL’s corporate representative. Bonn’s opening statement was covered by The Hollywood Reporter, CBS Sports, and Yahoo Sports.

  • Universal Cable Productions LLC et al. v. Atlantic Specialty Insurance Co. Hired by NBCUniversal to turn things around after its subsidiary, UCP, lost a major insurance dispute with Atlantic Specialty Insurance Co., Bonn obtained a total reversal in the Ninth Circuit in a widely-publicized decision about whether acts of terrorism fall within the standard “War Exclusions” common to many insurance policies. (Universal Cable Prods., LLC, et al. v. Atlantic Specialty Ins. Co., 929 F.3d 1143 (9th Cir. July 12, 2019). On remand, the district court found in UCP’s favor on liability and set a trial solely on the issues of damages and Atlantic’s bad faith. The case settled for a confidential amount the night before a trial in which Bonn was slated to deliver closing arguments,

  • FSG Services Inc. v. Flutter Entertainment. Secured a favorable award for Flutter Entertainment 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. This high stakes, high profile arbitration resulted from FOX’s assertion that it should be entitled to the same price Flutter paid for its share of FanDuel two years before the arbitration took place – $2.1 billion, with an implied company valuation of $11.2 billion. The arbitrator, however, found that FOX’s payment must be based on a substantially higher FanDuel valuation of $20 billion it was hoping for, plus an additional 5% interest per year. 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.

  • Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited and Crum & Forster Holdings Corp. v. S.A.C. Capital Management, LLC, et al. Defended Third Point LLC against this civil RICO securities case seeking over $10 billion in damages. Bonn deposed the plaintiff’s experts, including the former chief accountant of the Securities and Exchange Commission, successfully drafted trial and appellate briefs that resulted in piercing the plaintiff’s privilege log, and contributed to securing dismissal of the plaintiff’s claims against Third Point in their entirety on summary judgment.

  • Appellate
  • Arbitration
  • Class action
  • Commercial
  • Commercial disputes
  • Competition/antitrust
  • Dispute resolution
  • Entertainment
  • Intellectual property
  • Labor and employment
  • Plaintiff

  • J.D. - Stanford Law School    
  • B.A., Political Science - The University of California, Los Angeles    
  • Law Clerk to the Honorable Dean D. Pregerson - United States District 
  • Court for the Central District of California    

  • California