-Successfully resolving a defamation claim asserted against the client’s CEO by the former-CEO of a public company, who alleged that the client’s commentary had resulted in her dismissal.-Obtaining a dismissal (recently upheld on appeal) by summary judgment of a multi-billion-dollar claim by a Canadian company arising from an alleged short-selling conspiracy among the client and several other investment managers.
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-Securing a trial verdict dismissing claims brought against the firm by a co-investor in a solar energy company.Matthew represented another New York-based asset manager and its CEO in a variety of matters over the past decade including:.
Matthew also successfully represented the client in connection with a multi-billion-dollar claim asserted against the firm and its CEO by a former employee who alleged that he had been promised a partnership. He successfully guided this client through significant regulatory investigations in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Spain. For more than 15 years, Matthew has acted as outside general counsel to a global asset manager with over $20 billion in assets.Matthew is currently on the Board of Human Rights First. He received a Ford Foundation Grant to pursue human rights legal work in South Africa toward the end of apartheid, and his work sparked a passion that carries on in the firm’s human rights and public interest practice today. Matthew founded Dontzin Nagy & Fleissig after beginning his career as a trial lawyer at LaRossa, Mitchell & Ross and then at Kramer Levin. He has argued appeals before the US Court of Appeals for the Second and Third Circuit and the New York Supreme Court’s Appellate Division. Matthew has tried cases in the US District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the Northern District of Illinois, and in state courts in New York and California. Clients include international commercial banks, asset managers, corporations, art galleries and collectors, and high-net-worth individuals. Matthew regularly represents clients in investigations and lawsuits brought by state and federal regulators, including the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Justice, the US and State Attorneys General offices, and the New York District Attorney’s Office.
Acting as lead counsel, he has supervised more than 150 lawyers from 30 leading law firms in achieving successful results for his clients in the United States and in cross-border disputes. In more than 25 years of practice, Matthew has devised and coordinated trial and litigation strategy for civil and criminal proceedings involving more than $50 billion under the laws of seven jurisdictions. Dontzin resolves complex legal issues in commercial litigation, white collar criminal law, regulatory matters, international contractual disputes, art law, and sophisticated commercial transactions, among other practice areas.
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