Matthew A. Martel
Matthew (“Matt”) A. Martel has more than 25 years of experience representing financial institutions in state and federal litigation, government investigations and enforcement actions, and bankruptcy and restructuring matters. His litigation background combined with a focus on better understanding these increasingly complex institutions, the issues they face, their operations, and their products are among the reasons clients turn to him for counseling on disputes avoidance, compliance, and risk issues.
When other risk prevention efforts have proven inadequate, Matt has helped craft state and federal legislative solutions. The central focus of Matt’s counseling and disputes practice is structured products, including deals involving underlying consumer products such as mortgage, student loan, auto loan, credit card, and life insurance, as well as securitizations of corporate and municipal debt. Matt is active in financial institution industry organizations that cover the structured finance and securitization industries and is a regular speaker at industry events.
Matt works with banks and nonbank financial institutions, including commercial and investment banks, corporate trustees, servicers, hedge funds and other asset managers, and investment advisers. He has experience with each of the principal federal and state banking regulators. He is an active participant in the Structured Finance Association (Board of Directors, Executive Committee Member) and contributes to the American Bankers Association, Corporate Trustee Committee and Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA).
Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Matt was a financial services litigation lawyer at another global law firm.
