Matt defends individuals, executives, and companies in complex criminal proceedings and investigations by government enforcement authorities. His practice includes all stages of federal criminal prosecutions, from navigating grand jury investigations to pre-indictment negotiations, trials, appeals, and post-conviction collateral attacks.
Matt has helped clients contend with a broad array of federal charges, including securities fraud, mail and wire fraud, money laundering, economic espionage, bank fraud, healthcare fraud, false statements, obstruction of justice, racketeering, bank robbery, and drug and gun possession. He has successfully negotiated favorable pre-and post-indictment resolutions, including post-indictment dismissals. Matt serves on the San Francisco and Oakland Trial Panel under the Criminal Justice Act and briefs and argues cases in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Matt also has extensive experience in corporate internal investigations as well as a wide range of complex civil litigation in federal and state courts. He has represented clients in consumer class actions, multi-district mass tort litigation, products liability, personal injury, tax, and other high-stakes business disputes. He has obtained subpoenas for foreign-based clients under 28 U.S.C. § 1782 and has argued an issue of first impression under that law in the Ninth Circuit.
Before joining Illovsky Gates & Calia LLP, Matt was a partner for seven years at the white collar defense boutiques of Boersch Shapiro LLP and Boersch & Illovsky LLP. Prior to that he spent four years at Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass, where he practiced complex commercial litigation.