Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is pleased to announce that partner Ann Marie Mortimer was recognized in Daily Journal’s 2026 list of Leading Commercial Litigators. This is the second consecutive year that Mortimer has been awarded this honor. The annual supplement honors bet-the-company attorneys who have served as lead counsel on major litigation in California or on national litigation that has significantly impacted California.

Head of the firm’s commercial litigation practice and founder and managing partner of the Los Angeles office, Mortimer is well-versed in advising high-profile clients on complex commercial litigation, including banking, privacy, mass torts, data breach, and climate litigation. In a recent verdict with major implications for the banking and finance industry, as lead counsel, she and the team secured a complete defense verdict for Nano Banc after a two-month jury trial for claims that the bank aided and abetted a theft and breach of fiduciary duty in connection with a $37 million commercial real-estate loan. She was the lead lawyer defending an internet service provider in a class action lawsuit that has been deemed the largest data breach in history and was featured as lead counsel on one of the Daily Journal’s Top Defense Verdicts in California for her representation of one of the largest American multinational big box retailers in a class action lawsuit involving an alleged data privacy breach and its precedent-setting decision was one of the first dismissals of a California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) claim on the merits. Mortimer’s leadership in complex commercial litigation extends to model leadership within her firm and the community as one of only a handful of female office managing partners in California.

The full Leading Commercial Litigators 2026 report, including Mortimer’s profile, can be viewed here in the Daily Journal (subscription only).