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About
Provided by Matthew C. Solomon
Practice Areas
Matt represents financial institutions, public and private companies, asset managers, and individual executives and employees on issues ranging from regulatory compliance and remediation advice to advocacy and litigation against the government and private parties.
Career
Matt joined Cleary Gottlieb as a partner after serving for 15 years as a white-collar prosecutor and supervisor with the DOJ and as a senior enforcement official with the SEC—most recently as the SEC’s Chief Litigation Counsel. Before joining Cleary, Matt served as the SEC’s Deputy Chief Litigation Counsel in 2012, and was elevated to be the agency’s Chief Litigation Counsel in 2013. In this role, Matt led the SEC’s 150-attorney national trial unit and supervised the SEC’s litigated cases in federal courts and administrative proceedings. Prior to the SEC, Matt served in several prominent positions over 10 years with the DOJ.
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, magna cum laude (1999); B.A., Wesleyan University, magna cum laude (1994).
Professional Memberships
Edward Bennett Williams American Inn of Court (2012-current).
Bar, District of Columbia and New York.
Chambers Review
USA
Matthew Solomon represents public companies, financial institutions, investment funds and individual executives in a whole suite of investigations and enforcement matters brought by the SEC, CFTC and DOJ.
Matthew Solomon of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP is noted for his expertise in counseling clients through criminal and regulatory proceedings with experience before the SEC and DOJ.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Matt is terrific. He has a deep knowledge of the law and of the SEC as an institution. He always his puts his clients first."
"Matt is a great oral advocate with a great sense of what arguments will resonate with the court. He has great instincts on how to construct arguments and is excellent at complex work."
"He can handle cases from soup to nut."
"Matt is terrific. He has a deep knowledge of the law and of the SEC as an institution. He always his puts his clients first."
"Matt is a great oral advocate with a great sense of what arguments will resonate with the court. He has great instincts on how to construct arguments and is excellent at complex work."
"He can handle cases from soup to nut."
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