Latham & Watkins LLP

Mark Mester has extensive experience in class action litigation and served for three years as Global Co-Chair of the firm’s Consumer Class Action Practice Group.

Mark has been lead counsel in over 1,000 consumer class actions over the last 35+ years. Mark is presently Lead Counsel in multidistrict litigation for the NCAA in In re NCAA Student-Athlete Concussion Injury Litigation, In re NCAA Student-Athlete Concussion Injury Litigation-Single Sport / Single School (Football) as well as for Beyond Meat in In re Beyond Meat, Inc. Protein Content Marketing and Sales Practices Litigation. Mark is also Lead Counsel for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in a nationwide TCPA class action. He has also served as Lead Counsel in nationwide consumer class actions and multidistrict litigation for American Honda, Apple, Bass Pro, Behr, CCC Intelligent Solutions, Costco, Electrolux, Fairlife, Goldman Sachs, LG Energy, Navistar, Masco, Reckitt Benckiser, Safeway, Walmart, Weyerhaeuser, and Whole Foods.

For many years, Mark was a member of the firm's Ethics and Pro Bono Committees.