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

• Superior Court Examines Choice of Law Principles For Mixed Contractual and Non-Contractual Claims
• Chancery Upholds Fiduciary Duty Claims Arising Out Of Deal Involving an Alleged Control Group That Included Non-Stockholders and a Sale Process Managed By a Disinterested and Independent Special Committee
• Chancery Finds No Transaction-Specific Control Where Plaintiffs Failed to Allege that a Majority of the Members of a Special Committee Were Under the Sway of a Would-Be Controller
• Implied Covenant of Good Faith and Fair Dealing Saves Employee’s Claim for Improper Termination Under Company’s LLC Agreement
• Chancery Shifts Attorneys’ Fees, Reasoning Perjury Is Bad Faith Per Se
• 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
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Honors

Best Lawyers, 2021
Martindale-Hubbell, AV Preeminent