Overview
“Matthew Murphy is a very smart, up and coming litigator. He is incredibly responsive.” (The Legal 500)
Matthew focuses primarily on litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery involving fiduciary duties, corporate governance and control, contractual disputes, and other commercial disputes. He has also advised on transactional matters involving Delaware limited liability companies, general partnerships, limited partnerships, corporations, and special committees, and has advised on a variety of commercial transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, cross-border transactions, secured transactions, and securitization and structured finance transactions.
While in law school, Matthew served as a judicial extern for Vice Chancellor Donald Parsons Jr. of the Delaware Court of Chancery and the Honorable Mary M. Johnston of the Delaware Superior Court’s Complex Commercial Litigation Division.
PRACTICES
Clerkships
- The Honorable Paul R. Wallace, Superior Court of Delaware, 2014
- Widener University School of Law, J.D., summa cum laude, 2013
Delaware Journal of Corporate Law - St. Joseph's University, B.A., History, 2008
Education
Recognition
- The Best Lawyers in America, Ones to Watch, 2022, 2021
- The Legal 500, 2021
Bar Admissions
- Delaware, 2013
- Pennsylvania, 2014
- United States District Court, District of Delaware, 2014