WASHINGTON, D.C. – June 20, 2023 – Tonya M. Esposito, a Litigation Practice Shareholder in the Washington, D.C. office of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP, will speak at the Association of Corporate Counsel Foundation’s Global Women in Law & Leadership Symposium and Honors Dinner June 21, at the United Nation’s Delegates Dining Room, in New York City. Esposito will speak on the panel “The Global Rise of Women in the Workplace”. The symposium will include networking opportunities and programing focused on exploring trends and empowering women leaders. The dinner will feature distinguished honorees who have made significant contributions to the legal profession, excel as leaders, and have been instrumental in advancing opportunities for women around the world. These include New York Stock Exchange Chair Sharon Bowen; Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Senior Advisor and former CLO & COO Connie Collingsworth; and Lawyer Mia Yamamoto. Learn more here: https://web.cvent.com/event/0ea7ccd2-4fe8-48ff-aae4-26cf695626a6/summary
Esposito focuses her practice on a variety of consumer issues, including financial services, antitrust, and marketing and advertising. She has considerable experience representing clients in private litigation, as well as in government investigations brought by state attorneys general, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). With deep experience representing a variety of financial institutions in both litigation and compliance matters, Esposito represents clients in litigation involving claims brought under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA), the Truth in Lending Act (TILA), the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), the state deceptive acts and practices laws (UDAAP), and many types of internal and government investigations. She regularly handles matters involving credit cards, student loans, residential and commercial mortgages, as well as privacy and FinTech issues.
Esposito also represents clients in complex domestic and multinational antitrust investigations and litigation across a wide range of industries, including health care, air passenger and air cargo, higher education, TFT-LCD and CRT products, automotive parts, and rubber chemicals, as well as in complex commercial matters including class action litigation. She regularly helps clients develop and implement compliance programs, including training and policy drafting, addressing virtually all aspects of state and federal competition laws. Esposito also has deep experience representing clients in merger investigations brought by both the FTC and DOJ, as well as formulating strategies for negotiating and responding to Second Requests for information .
Esposito also represents a variety of consumer products companies in investigations, substantiation proceedings, and litigation brought by the FTC, FDA, the state Attorneys General, as well as private litigants. She works with clients to develop and implement compliant marketing and advertising campaigns and also helps them defend the full scope of consumer claims brought by individual and class counsel, including the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the privacy laws, the autorenewal laws, and beyond. Esposito has considerable experience representing clients in the personal care products, cosmetics, luxury brands, weight loss and wellness companies, dietary supplements, and food manufacturer markets.
As a Washington lawyer, Esposito represents companies and individuals in all phases of government and internal investigations as well as in enforcement proceedings.