Matthew F. Lintner

Matt Lintner has extensive experience litigating complex corporate, commercial, and fiduciary matters. Matt represents corporations, directors and officers, and investors in class, derivative, and individual actions involving corporate governance and breach of fiduciary duty. He also represents clients in a wide variety of business tort, trust and contract actions, including trade secret and unfair competition claims. 

Matt was appointed by Attorney General Beau Biden to be the Director of the Fraud Division for the Delaware Department of Justice, and in that position was responsible for all civil and criminal enforcement under the securities, antitrust, consumer protection, data security and unfair competition laws in the state. He was also responsible for the prosecution of all corporate fraud, health care fraud and charity fraud in Delaware.

Experience

Litigation involving the fiduciary duties of directors and officers of Delaware companies

Disputes between managers and members of Delaware limited liability companies

Actions for inspection of books and records of Delaware companies

Actions for appraisal of the value of the shares of Delaware companies

Litigation over material adverse effect and material adverse change clauses

Fiduciary breaches by trustees of Delaware trusts

Internal corporate investigations

Securities fraud

Trade secret misappropriation and unfair competition

Covenants not to compete

Professional Affiliations

Delaware State Bar Association
American Bar Association

Latest Blog Posts

Delaware Business Litigation Report

• Chancery Lacks Jurisdiction to Grant Injunction While Superior Court Appeal Is Pending
• Chancery Finds SEC’s Filing of an Enforcement Action Did Not Trigger Redemption Right
• Chancery Confirms that the Implied Covenant Imposes a “Good Faith” Component to an Agreement to Negotiate
• Superior Court Finds Securities Lawsuits Do Not Fall within Relatedness Exclusion of Insurance Policy
• Superior Court Applies “Law Most Favorable” Choice of Law Provision and Finds Investment Fund’s Settlement of a Fraudulent Transfer Claim Was an Insurable Loss
• Chancery Grants Access to Facebook Board Emails in Books and Records Action
• Chancery Applies Unclean Hands Doctrine to Prevent a Trustee from Rescinding the Decanting of a Trust
• Delaware Supreme Court Adopts Post-Merger Derivative Standing Framework From In re Primedia, Inc. Shareholders Litigation
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Honors

Best Lawyers, 2021
Martindale-Hubbell, AV Preeminent