Avocats – United States

Matthew Murchison

Matthew Murchison, Global Vice Chair of the Copyright, Privacy & Communications Practice, is a preeminent advisor to market-leading communications companies in a wide array of regulatory, litigation, transactional, and compliance matters. His clients include: Internet service providers Cable operators Satellite operators Providers of voice services Technology companies Broadcasters and other video programmers He routinely appears before the Federal Communications Commission to advocate on a variety of core issues in the communications industry, including net neutrality, major transaction reviews, robocall mitigation, and spectrum policy. In addition, he has represented clients at all levels of the federal court system on communications matters — prevailing at oral argument in the DC Circuit and lower courts and spearheading briefing in cases before the US Supreme Court, US Courts of Appeal, and US District Courts concerning communications law, administrative law, federal preemption, and First Amendment issues. He also provides solutions-oriented counseling to clients on regulatory compliance and related matters. Since 2020, he has served as Editor in Chief of the Technology, Media and Telecommunications Review. In 2019, he was a Delegate to the ITU’s World Radiocomunication Conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. He also currently serves as a member of the Law Firm Advisory Committee of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, and as a member of the Board of Directors for the National Homelessness Law Center.

Latham & Watkins

Matthew Murphy

Matthew Murphy focuses primarily on litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery involving fiduciary duties, corporate governance and control, contractual disputes, and other commercial disputes. He has also advised on transactional matters involving Delaware limited liability companies, general partnerships, limited partnerships, corporations, and special committees, and has advised on a variety of commercial transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, cross-border transactions, secured transactions, and securitization and structured finance transactions. PRACTICES Investigative & Demand Committees Corporate & Chancery Litigation Mergers & Acquisitions

Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A.

Matthew Nadworny

Matt Nadworny is the founding partner of the Houston and Dallas Investment Fund Practice Groups. He has represented U.S. and non-U.S. fund sponsors on tens of billions of private fund formations across a wide variety of strategies, including leveraged buyout, energy, infrastructure, growth equity and credit. Matt also advises fund sponsors on a wide variety of related matters, including succession planning, “key person” events, spin-outs, conflict resolution, co-investments and internal manager operations.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Matthew Nicely

Matt’s practice covers the full range of the U.S. trade regulatory regime, including trade policy, trade remedies, customs, export controls, economic sanctions, antiboycott and anticorruption laws. He also advises clients on opportunities and risks presented by international obligations under bilateral, regional and multilateral trade and investment agreements, including World Trade Organization dispute resolution and counseling. Matt represents clients across multiple industries in antidumping, countervailing duty and safeguard litigation, and provides counsel on the business implications of day-to-day trade and customs regulation. Matt represents clients before multiple U.S. government agencies and U.S. courts. His clients vary in scope and span the globe: governments, exporters of goods and services, importers, and producers and users of various metals, high-tech goods, auto parts, chemicals and many different consumer items from all over the world. Matt serves as President of the Customs and International Trade Bar Association. As an adjunct law professor at American University Washington College of Law, Matt teaches a course called The U.S. Trade Regime and coaches the school’s WTO moot court team. To learn more about Matt, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/matthew-r-nicely

Akin

Matthew Nielsen

Matthew Nielsen represents companies, boards, executives, and securities firms and professionals in internal and government investigations and litigation involving civil and criminal misconduct. Matthew has deep experience in handling matters involving public company accounting and disclosure issues, insider trading, securities fraud, US export controls and sanctions, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), whistleblower complaints and healthcare fraud. In addition, Matthew regularly represents clients before and in litigation with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Department of Justice (DOJ), Financial Industry Regulatory Agency (FINRA), Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), Department of the Treasury and other federal and state agencies.

Bracewell LLP

Matthew Nolan

Counsel

ArentFox Schiff

Matthew O’Brien

Matthew O'Brien is a corporate partner in the Firm's Chicago office. Matthew represents private equity sponsors and public and private company clients in mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, going-private transactions, joint ventures, divestitures, private financings, recapitalizations and restructurings, and in related corporate governance, executive compensation and general corporate matters. Matthew joined Kirkland in 2006, has been a partner since 2012 and was selected by The Deal as a “Rising Star” M&A attorney in 2019.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Matthew Pacey

Matt advises clients on a wide variety of complex capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings, high yield and investment grade notes offerings, structured capital and liability management matters, particularly for private equity-backed and venture capital-backed companies. Matt also regularly advises public company boards on governance, conflicts and sensitive SEC compliance and disclosure matters. He has extensive experience in the energy, infrastructure, digital infrastructure, technology and aviation sectors.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Matthew Parrott

Matthew D. Parrott is the co-head of Fried Frank’s Real Estate Litigation Practice and a member of both the Real Estate and Litigation Departments. He concentrates his practice in the representation of commercial lenders and other parties in complex disputes and transactions involving sophisticated real estate structures, financings, workouts, mortgage and UCC foreclosures, restructurings, acquisitions and dispositions of all asset classes of real estate.

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Matthew Pearson

Dr. Pearson’s practice focuses on patent litigation, representing numerous key industry players in pharmaceuticals, chemistry and biology, with a particular focus on biologics and antibody technology. He holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry and, before transitioning to law, worked at the National Institutes of Health. His scientific background has allowed him to successfully litigate major patent disputes involving biologics, an extremely competitive and technically complex field. Intellectual Property: Patent Litigation; Life Sciences; Strategic IP Counseling; Inter Partes Review; Supreme Court & Appellate: IP To learn more about Matthew please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/matthew-a-pearson

Akin

Matthew Perreault

Matt Perreault advises healthcare organizations on complex transactions, sophisticated value-based care arrangements, and related fraud and abuse matters. He represents health plans; accountable care organizations (ACOs); and diverse provider, risk intermediary, care management and provider enablement organizations on a wide range of value-based care agreements, including shared savings, bundled payments, downside risk and capitation arrangements. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/perreault-matthew-j/

McDermott Will & Schulte

Matthew Perri

Director at Richards, Layton & Finger, Matthew Perri focuses on litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery and the Delaware Supreme Court and represents committees of boards of directors formed to perform investigations. Matt primarily represents Delaware corporations and alternative entities and their officers, directors, and managers, including in derivative and stockholder class action lawsuits. He frequently handles claims involving mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, fiduciary duties, statutory appraisal, statutory books and records, and complex commercial or contractual issues. PRACTICES Investigative & Demand Committees Corporate & Chancery Litigation Mergers & Acquisitions

Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A.

Matthew Petersen

Partner - Litigation and Investigations

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Matthew Ploszek

Matthew L. Ploszek focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and general corporate matters.

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Matthew Prewitt

Partner

ArentFox Schiff

Matthew R. Conway

Matthew Conway advises on clients’ most sophisticated executive compensation matters, particularly in the context of high-stakes transactions. Matthew delivers prompt, practical advice to public and private companies, private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, and executives on: Employment and separation agreements Retention, equity, and other incentive programs Deferred compensation arrangements He leverages extensive experience amid evolving market conditions to devise novel approaches to structuring executive incentive and pay packages, bolstering clients’ continuing operations. A recognized thought leader, Matthew is a contributing author to Bloomberg BNA’s “Section 409A Handbook.”

Latham & Watkins

Matthew R. Mollozzi

Moore & Van Allen, PLLC

Matthew R. Scheck

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Matthew Rawlinson

Matt Rawlinson is a trial lawyer in the Silicon Valley office of Latham & Watkins and former Managing Partner of the office, as well as former Global Co-Chair of the firm’s Securities Litigation Practice. In the last several years, Matt has served as successful trial counsel in more than half a dozen matters, defeating billions of dollars in asserted claims. He has tried cases in federal and state court in California, in Delaware, and before arbitrators throughout the country. Matt is one of a handful of attorneys in the country who have tried federal securities claims to a successful jury verdict. He has represented clients in the biotech, semiconductor, software, and medical device industries, among others. Matt joined Latham in 1997 after completing a judicial clerkship for Judge James B. Loken, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

Latham & Watkins

Matthew Reilly

Matt Reilly is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Matt is one of the preeminent antitrust practitioners in the country. Matt’s practice focuses on a wide range of antitrust matters, including antitrust litigation, complex transactions and antitrust counseling and government investigations. He is regularly relied on by major clients to navigate the approval process for the most complex, high-profile transactions, and to prepare to litigate mergers that face steep resistance from the agencies.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Matthew Richards

Ropes & Gray LLP

Matthew Riffee

Partner

Goodwin

Matthew Rizzo

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Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Matthew Roose

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Ropes & Gray LLP