Edward Salanga

Business-minded, strategic and practical litigation counsel

Edward Salanga represents businesses in complex, high-stakes litigation. With a talent for managing risk through counseling and early case evaluation, he advises clients in several areas, including:

• Commercial litigation, including class actions, antitrust, RICO and securities matters
• Construction law counseling and disputes
• Product liability and warranty disputes

Ed works to evaluate business and legal problems strategically. Lauded by clients for his super-responsive, business-minded and practical approach, he develops legal solutions tailored to each client’s business goals.

Ed was the national chair of the firm’s Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group and also led the firm’s Real Estate and Construction Litigation team.

• Representing contractors and owners in construction contract negotiations, contract performance and payment claims, scheduling and delay claims, construction defect disputes, and mechanics’ lien, stop notice and bonding issues.
• Providing counsel to real estate developers in construction defect litigation relating to luxury condominiums and condominium conversion projects in Phoenix.
• Representing direct sales companies and senior independent distributors in RICO and consumer fraud class action lawsuits, and FTC and state attorneys general investigations.
• Defending manufacturers in class action, product liability and breach of warranty disputes.
• Counseling companies on dispute resolution procedures, including arbitration, mediation and class action waiver policies.

• Represented one of the nation's largest public power utilities in a breach of warranty and contract dispute involving power plant and transmission equipment valued at tens of millions of dollars.
• Represented one of the largest contractors in the nation in various construction and contracting-related matters in Arizona, including a multi-million-dollar dispute brought by a school district over a wastewater treatment plant, which resulted in a dismissal of all claims.
• Represented an international insurance broker in various proceedings arising out of the collapse of a casino parking garage that was part of a multi-million-dollar construction project.
• Represented a manufacturer of consumer water treatment systems in a nationwide class action that resulted in the early dismissal of all claims.
• Obtained early dismissal of Arizona Securities Act class action alleged against directors and officers of the publisher of an in-flight catalog.
• Represented a direct sales company in a high-profile FTC enforcement action filed in the District of Arizona alleging pyramid scheme and income misrepresentation claims under Section 5 of the FTC Act.
• Represented a prominent Tucson resort in an Arizona antitrust lawsuit that resulted in summary judgment in our client's favor at the trial court, which was affirmed by the Arizona Court of Appeals.