Matt’s practice focuses on energy law and economic regulation, communications law, corporate and non-profit law, administrative law and litigation. He works with cooperative, municipal, non-profit and commercial clients on energy and telecommunications regulatory, project development and corporate issues. He has significant experience with electric, natural gas and oil regulatory matters before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, state commissions and the federal courts, and advises clients on matters relating to wholesale power and transmission, including rates, terms and conditions of service and the various requirements of state and federal regulations and laws. Matt is co-located in Thompson Coburn’s Chicago and Washington D.C. offices.

Matt is a Past-President of the Energy Bar Association (“EBA”) and currently serves as EBA’s Delegate to the American Bar Association. He is a former board member of the LGBTQ+ Bar’s Philadelphia and Washington D.C. affiliate bar associations: GALLOP and GAYLAW. He is a veteran of the U.S. Army, having served as an Infantry Paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Corps. Matt studies improv and acting at Second City and iO Chicago and occasionally embarrasses himself in these endeavors in front of (very) small crowds.

Matt received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago, a Master’s of Business Administration from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and a Juris Doctorate from Rutgers University School of Law. He is admitted to practice in D.C., Virginia and Illinois and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C., Fifth, Seventh, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits.