Mazda Antia

Mazda Antia is a litigation attorney known for handling complex disputes involving technology, healthcare, and other regulated industries. His nationwide practice focuses on class actions, licensing conflicts, contractual disputes, and internal investigations. He has represented companies facing high-stakes claims tied to emerging technologies, disruptive business models, and evolving regulatory frameworks.

Mazda earned a degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign before pursuing legal studies. He later received a Juris Doctor from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, where the program strengthened his analytical approach to litigation. This academic training prepared him to manage legal disputes involving business regulation, technology, and complex commercial issues.

Mazda focuses his litigation work on nationwide consumer class actions and complex commercial disputes. His matters often involve allegations such as false advertising, unfair competition, consumer privacy violations, and Telephone Consumer Protection Act claims. He has also addressed RICO allegations and other federal and state consumer protection statutes in nationwide litigation.

Mazda has represented businesses across technology, social media, retail, communications, healthcare, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, manufacturing, and investment sectors. Many of these disputes required defending companies in nationwide class litigation and challenging certification efforts. He has also negotiated complex settlements after building strong defenses based on statutory interpretation and factual analysis today.

Mazda also maintains extensive healthcare litigation experience representing health plans, pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology businesses, and medical industry suppliers. His work has involved breach of contract disputes, antitrust allegations, licensing conflicts, and claims under statutes such as the False Claims Act, ERISA, and other regulatory frameworks affecting healthcare markets nationwide today.

Mazda has conducted internal investigations involving corporate compliance concerns, government inquiries, and allegations tied to drug reimbursement or marketing practices. His investigations have also addressed Foreign Corrupt Practices Act issues, fraud accusations, vendor conduct concerns, and questions raised by audit committees or shareholder review processes across international matters and companies.

Mazda Antia previously served as a judicial law clerk to Chief Judge William J. Zloch of the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Mazda also handled criminal prosecutions earlier in his career, first chairing cases for the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office while gaining trial experience.

Law Office Affiliations

• Partner, Cooley LLP
• Member, American Bar Association

Licensed State

• California
• Illinois

Education

• Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  Bachelor of Science (BS)

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