Biography
Matthew Splitek represents health care providers, financial institutions, tech companies, and other large businesses in some of their highest-stakes disputes. While he focuses on class actions and corporate governance matters, he has extensive experience litigating securities, antitrust, unfair trade practice, and commercial contract cases.
Matthew’s experience includes:
- Won victory at trial dismissing shareholder claims to dissolve a corporation
- Won or favorably resolved multiple class actions as lead counsel in health care and consumer cases
- Persuaded Wisconsin Court of Appeals to reverse trial court in a commercial lending dispute
- Argued and won affirmance by Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals dismissing federal regulatory claims
- Argued and won reversal by the Arizona Court of Appeals in a class action matter
Legal Services
- Securities Litigation and Enforcement
- Class Action Defense
- Appellate
- Litigation & Dispute Resolution
- Professional Liability
Education and Honors
- Yale Law School (J.D., 2007)
- University of Wisconsin - Madison (B.A., 1999)
Bar Admissions
- Wisconsin
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Western District of Wisconsin
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas
Professional Recognition
- Chambers USA, Litigation: General Commercial (2022)
- Selected for inclusion in Wisconsin Super Lawyers® - Rising Stars Edition 2019 (Appellate)
Clerkship
- Law Clerk to Chief Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson, Wisconsin Supreme Court