Matthew Crowl

Founding Partner @Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP

Chicago, IL, US

Notable representations include:•Matt won a $13 million federal jury verdict and a nearly $1 million attorney fee award on behalf of Newell Rubbermaid\'s BernzOmatic division against a key supplier for wrongfully terminating a supply contract, copying BernzOmatic\'s trade dress, and publishing false advertisements about BernzOmatic\'s products.•Matt won a $43 million arbitration award for a federal agency. He prevailed on all eleven issues in the case and obtained an award of arbitrator fees as the prevailing party.•Matt won a $2.3 million federal jury verdict for a federal agency in a complex insurance dispute.•Matt won dismissal of a federal indictment charging a bank Vice President with loan fraud.•Matt successfully concluded FCPA investigations for numerous international corporations.•Matt successfully achieved probation for a former Rolls Royce executive charged in a $145 million multi-national foreign bribery scheme.•Matt successfully achieved probation for an executive charged federally in a wide-ranging municipal bribery scheme.•Matt won a dismissal of a defamation lawsuit against the American Academy of Pediatrics involving a journal’s First Amendment right to publish scientific research.•Matt successfully represented numerous companies and individuals in Office of Inspector General investigations.•Matt successfully defended a Fortune 500 company in contract debarment proceedings.•In his successful defense of an executive of a major Japanese corporation who was a target of a U.S. Department of Justice Anti-Trust investigation, Matt negotiated transactional immunity and the executive was not charged.•Matt represented an executive of a healthcare provider in a U.S. Attorney’s Office investigation. The investigation concluded with no charges.

University of Chicago Law School

Doctor of Law (J.D.)

Drake University

B.A., Economics