Matt Lee
Level 21
8 Chifley Square, Sydney
NSW 2000
matt.lee@lfmdisputes.com
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Matt helps clients successfully resolve complex and important business disputes, often in a cross-border context. Prior to joining Lindsay Francis & Mangan, Matt ran the Australian operations for the world’s largest legal finance company, Burford Capital, and, before that, worked in the New York office of Quinn Emanuel for over seven years. Matt was a Fulbright W.G. Walker Scholar at Harvard Law School, and is admitted in Australia and New York.
Clients have noted in Chambers and Partners that “Matt is extremely responsive, has excellent commercial awareness and is technically astute” and “Matt is a sophisticated operator who has the experience and insight required by clients to navigate complex litigation to reduce their risk and maximize upside.” From his time at Burford, Matt brings to the firm’s clients deep experience and expertise in legal finance and the strategic considerations litigation funding and contingent risk insurance involves, for plaintiffs and defendants.
Matt’s commercial disputes experience includes first chair advocacy and managing large teams of lawyers in significant and “bet the company” complex litigation, commercial arbitration, investor-state arbitration, and asset recovery and award/judgment enforcement matters. He has particular experience in complex damages and financial issues, regularly working with leading experts. He has litigated or arbitrated matters involving complex financial products; mergers and acquisition-related disputes; structured finance; creditor, loan and financing-related disputes; foreign investment disputes; disputes concerning mining, energy, commodities, renewables, infrastructure and construction projects; shareholder disputes; insurance; data privacy; real estate; technology and intellectual property; business torts and directors’ duties; and insolvency-related disputes. Matt also has experience advising government clients on regulatory matters, constitutional law, major litigation, and appellate work, including before the High Court of Australia.
In addition to being a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a Fellow at the Law Foundation of South Australia, and having taught courses at New York University and Adelaide Law School, Matt’s thought leadership has been published in many books, articles, and speaking engagements.
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Matt has been recognised for the past four years as a top-ranked individual in Australia for his expertise in litigation funding by Chambers & Partners as well as one of the top 100 global leaders in litigation finance by Lawdragon. Prior to his time working in legal finance, Matt was recognised as a Rising Star in New York by Super Lawyers.
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Lindsay Francis & Mangan (Sydney), 2024-date
Burford Capital (Sydney/New York), Principal, 2019-2024
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan (New York), Counsel, 2011-2019
South Australian Crown Solicitor’s Office, 2007-2010
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US Federal Court (Southern District of New York) (2012)
Supreme Court of New York (2012)
High Court and Federal Court of Australia (2009)
Supreme Court of South Australia (2008)