Matthew has assisted clients with a range of matters, including cases involving contract disputes, corporate securities, business torts, tax, real estate, intellectual property, unfair competition, antitrust, and class actions. Some representative matters include:

• Lead counsel for claimant defense contractor in an arbitration proceeding regarding Afghan tax liabilities; won $2.3 million arbitral award.
• Trial counsel for third-party defendant in breach of fiduciary duty, misappropriation, and breach of contract case; won $103.9 million jury verdict on counterclaim and defense verdict on claims asserted against client following a three week trial. Verdict Search ranked the verdict among the largest jury awards in the United States in 2004.
• Litigation counsel for a group of bondholders in a fraud and breach of contract suit concerning a contested $110 million debt for equity swap of subprime mortgage backed securities.
• Counsel for claimant software services provider in an arbitration before the International Chamber of Commerce, International Court of Arbitration, in a case involving breach of a software license agreement by a Chinese joint venture company; won a multimillion dollar award, including attorneys’ fees and costs.
• Trial counsel for plaintiff in legal malpractice suit against former corporate counsel; won $17.2 million jury verdict.
• Litigation counsel for patent pool that licenses consumer electronics technology.
• Defense counsel for healthcare company in a shareholder class action lawsuit brought to enjoin the client’s acquisition in an announced tender offer; acquisition was consummated on time and the plaintiffs’ claims were abandoned with no payment or settlement.
• Trial counsel to a large regional commercial and retail bank in a multi-million dollar lease dispute.
• Defense counsel for a major producer and supplier of specialty ferroalloys in a federal antitrust suit challenging alleged attempts to manipulate U.S. import duties.
• Litigation counsel for numerous property owners in disputes with the District of Columbia over real property tax assessments.
• Litigation counsel for plaintiff in a breach of contract suit against a major European investment bank; matter resolved favorably for client.
• Plaintiff’s counsel for a federal savings bank in litigation and arbitration proceedings involving a non-competition/non-solicitation agreement with a former executive.
• Counsel for a pet food manufacturer in Lanham Act false advertising and unfair competition litigation.

Matthew is the co-author of “Regulating Biotechnology: Science, Ethics, Law and Governance Meet Head on in the Age of Informed Ignorance,” published in the Temple Environmental Law and Technology Journal in Spring 2003.