Dechert LLP

Litigation

Partner

Matthew L. Larrabee has more than 30 years of experience in trial and appellate practice and currently serves as the firm’s Deputy Chair for Strategic Growth. He previously served as Chair of the global litigation practice group. He has served as lead trial counsel for many leading businesses in the financial services, mutual fund, hedge fund, private equity and technology industries.

Mr. Larrabee has significant experience in financial services litigation, securities class actions, internal investigations, shareholder derivative litigation, mergers and acquisitions, appraisal actions, and other complex commercial litigation. He has tried a wide range of cases, and  argued significant appeals, in state and federal courts across the country. Mr. Larrabee speaks more than a dozen times a year to clients and at industry conferences on litigation risks, particularly those facing the financial services industry. He is also co-author of Mutual Fund Litigation and Insurance Guide (LexisNexis, 2016), a book that examines the legal risks faced by the mutual fund industry.

American Bar Association American Law Institute

University of California, Davis, B.A., 1977, with Honors University of California Hastings College of the Law, J.D., 1980, Thurston Honor Society, Order of the Coif, Editor-in-Chief of the Hastings Law Journal