Matthew Splitek, Partner

Matthew Splitek is a partner in the Commercial Litigation Group. His practice focuses on class actions and intra-company disputes, including shareholder lawsuits, corporate governance disputes, special litigation committees, and stock appraisal actions. Matthew’s experience includes:

• Successfully defending against shareholder class actions seeking to enjoin mergers or acquisitions of publicly-traded companies.
• Representing a special litigation committee tasked with investigating claims that a company’s chairman and CEO had breached their fiduciary duties to a minority shareholder.
• Representing a bank holding company as it prevailed at trial against former shareholders challenging the company’s valuation of their stock.
• Obtaining an order that transferred control of a limited liability company to its 25-percent owner, based on the majority owner's diversion of assets.
• Successfully defending the majority owners of a limited liability company against a minority owner's claims of fraud.
• Winning a summary judgment that dismissed claims brought against a transportation company by its former CEO, then successfully defending that judgment on appeal.
• Representing lawyers and law firms in professional liability suits.