Matt Levine, Principal
Fish & Richardson PC
Matthew Levine is a Principal in the New York office of Fish & Richardson. His practice emphasizes government investigations and white collar defense, complex business litigation and copyright and trademark litigation.
From 2001 through 2007, Mr. Levine served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of New York. From 1998 through 2001, Mr. Levine served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of Columbia. He has investigated and prosecuted hundreds of criminal cases, tried 17 jury trials and over 20 bench trials to verdict, and briefed dozens of appeals, arguing a number of them before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals for District of Columbia Circuit, the New York State Appellate Division and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.
In 2007, Mr. Levine served as Acting Chief of the U.S. Attorney’s Office Business & Securities Fraud Section, supervising a group of federal prosecutors conducting major securities fraud and other white-collar prosecutions. Mr. Levine also personally conducted some of the U.S. Attorney Office’s most high-profile securities and white collar prosecutions. He has handled investigations involving insider trading, accounting fraud, stock options backdating, private placement fraud, stock manipulation, computer intrusion, bank fraud, tax fraud, mortgage fraud, commodities fraud, and money laundering. From 2003 to 2004, Mr. Levine also served as Criminal Health Care Fraud Coordinator, where he developed and supervised the investigations and prosecutions of health care fraud offenses.
Mr. Levine began his career in the Justice Department in 1997 serving as Deputy Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, where he was responsible for overseeing relationships with State Attorneys General and local law enforcement agencies. Mr. Levine has previous experience in litigation with a major New York law firm, where he represented corporate and individual clients in all phases of civil and criminal matters.
