Matthew J.Silveira (Matt)

Matt Silveira focuses his practice on appellate and civil litigation in federal and state courts, where he primarily handles appeals, dispositive motions, and legal strategy. He has experience in a wide range of practice areas, including false claims, financial markets, arbitration, antitrust, intellectual property, health care, insurance, and labor and employment.

Matt has led appeals and petitions for discretionary review in appellate courts around the country, including the Federal Circuit, Ninth Circuit, California Courts of Appeal, and Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court. He also has written briefs resulting in victories after trial, on summary judgment, at the dismissal stage, in arbitration enforcement proceedings, and in connection with requests for injunctive relief. Recent engagements include: obtaining dismissal of a California False Claims Act complaint against financial institutions serving as remarketing agents of variable-rate municipal bonds; securing the dismissal of a series of market manipulation and consumer fraud lawsuits filed against a cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform in California state and federal courts; and obtaining and successfully defending on appeal a summary judgment of noninfringement for a semiconductor component manufacturer.

Matt also maintains a varied pro bono practice, including the representation of civil rights plaintiffs in the federal courts and immigration clients in proceedings before the Ninth Circuit and the Board of Immigration Appeals.