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Matthew J. Jacobs is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in the Firm’s Silicon Valley office. Matt heads the Firm’s White-Collar Criminal Defense Practice Group in Northern California. He has more than 15 years of experience as a trial lawyer handling white-collar defense, internal investigations and complex commercial litigation. Recognized as one of the leading lawyers in the Bay Area in his field, Matt represents individuals and corporations in complex commercial litigation, and criminal and internal investigations involving the government, whether the Justice Department, the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), or another agency.
Prior to joining McDermott, Matt was a federal prosecutor in San Francisco for the Northern District of California. As an Assistant U.S. Attorney, he served as the lead trial lawyer in numerous significant prosecutions involving securities fraud, health care, energy trading, banking and international money laundering. Matt was one of the prosecutors on the Enron case involving energy trading in California. He is the recipient of the Justice Department’s Director’s Award and the FBI’s Director’s Award.
As a McDermott partner heading a team of experienced lawyers representing individuals and companies in high stakes bet your company matters, Matt is experienced in, and gets great results in, cases across a wide variety of areas.
Representative Experience:
Represented international companies in several criminal investigations concerning allegations of antitrust price fixing, as well as numerous related civil cases.
Represented a special committee of the board of directors of a public company in internal investigation regarding options backdating.
Represented several former chief financial officers of public companies in connection with governmental and special committee investigations regarding options backdating.
Represented a corporation in dealings with the Justice Department and Environmental Protection Agency in connection with alleged violations of the Clean Air Act and other environmental issues.
Represented former top executive of a publicly traded pharmaceutical company in connection with Justice Department investigation of health care fraud and off-label promotion.
Represented a former executive of a public educational software company in connection with a bribery investigation.
Represented partners of a Big Four accounting firm in connection with international money laundering investigation and attempted forfeiture of assets of a foreign located bank, in a case involving the former Prime Minister of the Ukraine.
Represented the former chief financial officer of a public company in connection with an SEC investigation into insider trading.
Represented a former executive in an internal investigation concerning allegations of revenue recognition.
Represented a publicly traded company in connection with the theft of its trade secrets.
Education:
Stanford Law School, J.D., 1992
Northwestern University, M.S. (with honors), 1985
American University, B.A. (cum laude), 1983 | 