Matthew Lynch is senior counsel at Foley & Lardner LLP and is a member of the firm’s Business Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Construction, Consumer Financial Services, and Privacy, Security & Information Management Practices.
Mr. Lynch represents and counsels clients in a wide variety of complex business disputes, including insurer delinquency and other state insolvency proceedings, shareholder and securities disputes, construction litigation, data privacy matters, and all types of contract and statutory claims.
In 2012, Mr. Lynch was included in the Wisconsin Super Lawyers – Rising Stars® list for his work in business litigation.
Prior to joining Foley, Mr. Lynch served as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Michael J. Melloy of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Mr. Lynch has also worked as an intern for the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Lynch graduated from the University of Iowa College of Law with highest honors (J.D., 2006), where he was elected to Order of the Coif and served as senior articles editor for the Iowa Law Review. Mr. Lynch earned his undergraduate degree, with honors, from the University of Wisconsin, where he served as an editor, reporter, and columnist for the daily student newspaper.
Mr. Lynch has authored legal works published in the Iowa Law Review and the First Amendment Law Review, and has co-authored articles for the LexisNexis Emerging Issues Analysis series and Law360.
Mr. Lynch is admitted to practice in Wisconsin and Illinois, as well as the United States District Courts for the Western and Eastern Districts of Wisconsin and the United States Courts of Appeals for the Seventh and Eighth Circuits.