Matthew K. Handley
Matthew Handley is a member of the International and Securities Fraud/Investor Protection practice groups.
Mr. Handley focuses much of his practice on enforcement of the federal securities laws on behalf of both domestic and international investors. He currently works on several active securities fraud actions seeking to return to investors monies lost due to corporate fraud, including In re SCOR Holding (Switzerland) Securities Litigation (S.D.N.Y.) and In re Fannie Mae Securities Litigation (D.D.C.).
Mr. Handley has been a frequent speaker at institutional investor conferences in Europe including the 2006 and 2007 U.K. and Irish Pension Summit in Dublin, the 2006 European Pension Investment Forum in Paris and similar educational seminars for institutional investors throughout Europe.
Mr. Handley is also involved in the Firm’s international civil and human rights actions, including representation of a class of Indian residents who have suffered from groundwater pollution and representation of disability groups against a nationwide builder for failing to design and build accessible apartments.
In his pro bono work, Mr. Handley currently represents several detainees at the U.S. Naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in proceedings before U.S. Courts. Mr Handley also has represented Nepali citizens in United States Immigration Court in political asylum proceedings and currently represents the families of Nepali laborers who were trafficked and killed while working in Iraq. Mr. Handley’s work on behalf of these Nepali families has been recently recognized by the U.S. Ambassador to Nepal and the Prime Minister of Nepal.
Mr. Handley currently serves as an Associate Trustee of the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, and is on the advisory board of Global Playground, Inc., an organization which promotes education in developing countries.
Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Handley was a litigation associate at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. He began his legal career as a law clerk for the Honorable William Wayne Justice, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Texas. Before attending law school, Mr. Handley served two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nepal, working as a rural construction engineer.
Mr. Handley graduated from Princeton University with a B.S.E in Civil and Environmental Engineering (1997) and attended the University of Texas School of Law where he graduated with high honors in 2002 and was selected for the Order of the Coif and Chancellors Honor Society. While at the University of Texas, he was an Articles Editor for the Texas Law Review and author of Why Crocodiles, Elephants, and American Citizens Should Prefer Foreign Courts: A Comparative Analysis of Standing to Sue, 21 Rev. Litig. 97 (2002).
Mr. Handley is admitted to practice in New York, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Contact: mhandley@cmht.com
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