Matthew D. Ingber

Matthew’s recent client victories include:

• Winning a jury trial on behalf of a CMBS bond trader charged by the SEC with civil securities fraud;
• Securing the return of a multimillion dollar mistaken wire payment on behalf of a financial services client after a hard-fought two-week bench trial and appeal;
• Winning the first trial against an RMBS trustee arising out of the financial crisis;
• Successfully representing a telecommunications company in connection with a series of securities and shareholder derivative lawsuits; and
• Winning a nine-week trial involving a securitization trustee’s conduct in entering into a landmark private-label RMBS settlement;

Matthew also represents various pro bono clients, including individuals in asylum, civil rights and death penalty cases. Most recently, Matthew and a team of Mayer Brown lawyers convinced the US Department of Homeland Security to grant asylum to a Nigerian family (including their chess-prodigy son) that escaped Boko Haram.

• In 2017, secured a total trial victory for BNY Mellon in the first financial crisis-era case against a securitization trustee to go trial. Reported by the financial press as a “wipeout win in first trial of noteholder claims,” the victory followed a three-week trial in Ohio state court.
• Won a motion to dismiss on behalf of Frontier Communications in securities fraud lawsuit arising out of acquisition of Verizon assets; successfully represented client in related (and subsequently dismissed) shareholder derivative actions. In re Frontier Communications Corp. Stockholders Litigation, D. CT. 2017.
• In January 2014, after a nine-week trial widely reported in the financial and legal press, secured a victory for a securitization trustee when the New York State Supreme Court overwhelmingly approved an $8.5 billion settlement entered into by the trustee, Countrywide and Bank of America. Matthew was the lead Mayer Brown litigator who helped negotiate and then defend the settlement on behalf of the client.
• Represented an online gaming platform in connection with a New York Attorney General investigation into potential violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”).
• Represented BNY Mellon in all aspects of litigation and SEC and CFTC investigations relating to the bankruptcy of Sentinel Management Group. Matthew, as co-lead counsel, won a trial victory for BNY Mellon when a federal district judge, after a month-long bench trial on the bankruptcy trustee's $500 million claims for fraudulent and preferential transfers and equitable subordination, rejected all of the trustee's claims. The case eventually settled after various appeals. (Grede v. The Bank of New York et al., N.D. Ill. 2010)
• Represented ACE American Insurance Company in a putative class action asserting claims under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
• Won summary judgment for YouTube and its parent, Google, in a billion-dollar copyright infringement suit brought by Viacom in federal district court in New York. The Washington Post called the win "an immense legal victory" for Google, and The New York Times observed that "the ruling in the closely watched case could have major implications for the scores of Internet sites" that rely on user-generated content. (Viacom et al. v. Google et al., S.D.N.Y. 2010)
• Won acquittal on all counts for an NYSE specialist broker accused of securities fraud in a two-week jury trial. The Wall Street Journal noted that the victory was the government's "first defeat in prosecutions of allegedly improper trading activity on the New York Stock Exchange." (U.S. v. Scavone, S.D.N.Y. 2006)
• Representing Altice USA in a putative class action asserting claims under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
• Represented a multinational corporation in connection with an internal investigation relating to irregularities in the management of employee benefit plans for the corporation's US subsidiaries. 
• Represented a leading education and finance company in connection with investigations of the student loan industry by the attorneys general of ten states and various congressional committees.
• Lead trial counsel in successful Section 1983 civil rights action against the State of New York.
• Represented a Big Four accounting firm in connection with litigation arising out of its audit of a company accused of orchestrating a $600 million Ponzi scheme.
• Represented a UK television auction channel in a trade secret misappropriation and breach of contract matter.
• Represented major soft-drink manufacturer in tortious interference and breach of contract matter.
• Won a motion to dismiss with prejudice for all defendants in a Rule 10b-5 class action, In re eSpeed Securities Litigation, No. 05 Civ. 2091 (S.D.N.Y. 2006).
• Won a motion to dismiss with prejudice for all defendants in a Rule 10b-5 action, Abbad v. Amman, 285 F. Supp. 2d 411 (S.D.N.Y. 2003); the decision was affirmed on appeal in Abbad v. Amman, No. 03-9169, 2004 U.S. App. LEXIS 21033 (2d Cir. Oct. 8, 2004).
• Won summary judgment for a major banking client in a lender liability action.