Celesq® Presenters

Heavily regulated clients turn to Matt Luzadder, Managing Partner of Kelley Drye’s Chicago office, for actionable guidance on regulatory, compliance, and litigation matters. His seasoned, solution-focused representation protects their interests if government investigators, regulators, and plaintiff’s attorneys come calling. 

Matt merges deep regulatory knowledge with a litigator’s skill in identifying potential risks and a business lawyer’s eye for practical, efficient solutions. He knows what works for his clients because he appreciates their operational realities and recognizes both their industry’s challenges and opportunities. 

Matt distills complex legal and factual issues into understandable concepts. He helps clients understand their regulatory expectations to craft proactive compliance solutions and favorable resolutions to existing concerns. When the facts are unknown, he efficiently conducts internal investigations that minimize the burden on clients and get to the subject’s core. Matt’s relationships with regulators, investigators, and prosecutors​ give him valuable​ insight into their priorities and what will change their perspective. As a prolific speaker and writer, he ​“gets” his clients and where their industries are headed. 

Matt represents clients before the Department of Justice, the Department of Agriculture, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Department of Treasury, including FinCEN and OFAC, as well as foreign law enforcement entities. He regularly represents clients before state attorneys general, offices of inspectors general and financial regulators. His engagements include multistate and parallel investigations. He is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist® (CAMS) by the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists. 

Matt’s clients include public and private companies, and emerging and fast-growth companies. A faculty member at Nacha’s Payments Institute, he advises leading financial services organizations, payment processors, and companies that provide services related to blockchain technologies. Matt also represents the country’s foremost general and specialty contractors and the largest developers, generators, and distributors in the energy sector. 

The comprehensive compliance counseling Matt delivers includes implementation of best practices, risk assessments, and crafting policies, procedures, and training. He draws on real-world experience in conducting compliance reviews, resolving government investigations, and advising clients obtaining licenses, certifications, and strategic partnerships. All of this work has one overarching goal: to move his clients’ through or around issues that would otherwise impede their growth. 

Matt represents companies in a wide range of regulatory regimes, ranging from data privacy and security, fraud prevention, and consumer protection issues related to financial services and products. 

A member of the Northern District of Illinois’ Trial Bar, Matt is an accomplished litigator and strategic negotiator who has successfully pursued, defended, and settled breach of contract, tortious interference, false advertising, trade secrets, and various other related commercial and consumer protection claims. He has nearly two decades of experience defending businesses in employment actions and is fluent in issues including SEC reporting, negotiating service contracts, and software licensing agreements negotiations.