Christopher Van Gundy is a Partner in the Firm’s San Francisco office and a member of the Litigation and FDA Regulatory Compliance Groups. He pursues a dual practice of representing companies in litigation, purported class actions and California Proposition 65 cases typically involving food, dietary supplements, e-vapor and consumer products, as well as advising as to FDA/USDA regulatory compliance, labeling reviews, and product recalls. For several years, Mr. Van Gundy has been USA Chambers rated for Food Litigation and Regulation for clients in a wide variety of categories – olive oil, fruit purees, juice, energy bars, dietary supplements, e-vapor products, snack products, spices, vinegar, seaweed, seafood, and pet food, to name a few.
Mr. Van Gundy is one of the few lawyers to try false advertising food cases to a jury, which he uses to gain litigation strategy insights and settlement leverage for his clients. In his 30+ years of experience as both in-house and outside counsel, Mr. Van Gundy has enjoyed extensive first chair case and trial responsibility in a wide variety of food, dietary supplement and vape general commercial matters, including state consumer false advertising, federal Lanham Act claims, and supply chain disputes in federal, state, and foreign courts and arbitral tribunals. Previously, Mr. Van Gundy was the head of litigation for an affiliated group of food companies involving marquee brands of juice, bottled water, tree nuts and citrus.
By leveraging his dual practice, Mr. Van Gundy is able to achieve optimal outcomes for his client by mitigating litigation risk or obtaining favorable results in litigation.