Matt is an accomplished disputes and investigations lawyer who advises organizations, including some of the world’s most sophisticated corporate data users, vendors, and data-first organizations, on a broad spectrum of data privacy, data governance, and cybersecurity issues, leveraging more than 15 years of experience to litigate, solve problems, and advise on high-stakes and complex matters. Matt represents organizations across sectors, including technology, artificial intelligence, financial services, health care, and adtech and martech.
Holding a CIPP/US certification, Matt advises organizations on privacy and security obligations, cyber risk mitigation, data governance and licensing, to manage risk and implement effective governance solutions. He also handles security incident response and recovery, negotiates data-related contracts and transactions, and assists with product and program development. Additionally, he equips clients with practical legal and business insights into the data protection and litigation risks in acquisitions and divestitures. This way, Matt helps organizations navigate complex privacy and security obligations to avoid significant legal, financial, and reputational risks.
His experience encompasses frequently counseling clients on key US data laws, such as federal sectoral privacy laws for the financial services, health care, and education sectors, the TCPA and Illinois’s BIPA, the state privacy and data broker laws in effect in many states, and the cybersecurity rules in Massachusetts, New York, and Texas. He also often counsels on data laws worldwide, from north to south and from east to west. In doing so, he guides organizations to coherent and comprehensive compliance across often inconsistent legal frameworks.
As a litigator, Matt represents clients in cutting-edge, novel data- and privacy-related disputes in state and federal courts nationwide. He frequently delivers positive outcomes at the early stages of cases and when brought in to counter unfavorable developments. He also represents companies in commercial litigation, including class actions and investigations, taking the long view on the litigation and developing and executing on strategies that take the whole matter into consideration.
Matt writes widely on data privacy and cybersecurity matters, deploying his extensive legal experience in the field to analyze emerging issues. Earlier in his career, he worked at two other national firms and as a senior privacy counsel at one of the world’s largest financial institutions. Before that, Matt was a Java, SQL, and website developer.
Matt is an accomplished disputes and investigations lawyer who advises organizations, including some of the world’s most sophisticated corporate data users, vendors, and data-first organizations, on a broad spectrum of data privacy, data governance, and cybersecurity issues, leveraging more than 15 years of experience to litigate, solve problems, and advise on high-stakes and complex matters. Matt represents organizations across sectors, including technology, artificial intelligence, financial services, health care, and adtech and martech.
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Matt is an accomplished disputes and investigations lawyer who advises organizations, including some of the world’s most sophisticated corporate data users, vendors, and data-first organizations, on a broad spectrum of data privacy, data governance, and cybersecurity issues, leveraging more than 15 years of experience to litigate, solve problems, and advise on high-stakes and complex matters. Matt represents organizations across sectors, including technology, artificial intelligence, financial services, health care, and adtech and martech.
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Matt is an accomplished disputes and investigations lawyer who advises organizations, including some of the world’s most sophisticated corporate data users, vendors, and data-first organizations, on a broad spectrum of data privacy, data governance, and cybersecurity issues, leveraging more than 15 years of experience to litigate, solve problems, and advise on high-stakes and complex matters. Matt represents organizations across sectors, including technology, artificial intelligence, financial services, health care, and adtech and martech.
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