Matthew Coogan

Practice Areas

Matt Coogan represents entities and individuals in a broad range of complex commercial and other civil disputes, white collar criminal and regulatory proceedings, and internal investigations. His expansive practice has been built counseling and advocating for clients—both plaintiffs and defendants—in federal and state courts, arbitral proceedings, and other ADR settings, as well as investigations involving DOJ, SEC, FINRA, CFTC, and other regulatory and prosecutorial bodies. Matt’s clients have hailed from a wide collection of industries, and his experience includes matters involving complex finance, intellectual property, defamation, breach-of-contract, theft of trade secrets, business torts, fraud, corporate governance, antitrust, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, False Claims Act, insider trading, securities regulation, environmental regulation, bankruptcy, public corruption, campaign finance, and attorney malpractice and misconduct.

Career

Partner at LSW; counsel and associate at LSW; associate at large, multinational law firm; Law Clerk to the Hon. Naomi Reice Buchwald, U.S. District Court, SDNY.

Professional Memberships

New York City Bar Association (Professional Responsibility Committee);

New York State Bar Association (Committee on Federal Procedure); New York County Lawyers Association (Supreme Court Committee); Federal Bar Council (Public Service Committee)

Personal

Harvard Law School, J.D.; New York University, B.A. (magna cum laude with honors in Mathematics and Philosophy; Phi Beta Kappa)