With wide-ranging experience in shareholder activism, high-stakes securities litigation, and enforcement matters, Matthew Traylor provides clients with innovative strategic insights and a comprehensive view of risks and opportunities.
Matt represents large institutional investors seeking to safeguard and enhance their investments at publicly traded companies. He guides clients in the full range of shareholder activism actions to achieve their goals, including board of director changes, mergers and acquisitions, reforming corporate governance standards, or securing operational changes that create or increase shareholder value. A strong writer, adept communicator, and consummate team player, Matt is practical, calm under pressure, and passionate about getting results that advance his clients’ objectives.
Matt brings a clear understanding of the issues investors face and the broader securities market. Before joining Olshan, he prosecuted securities fraud, class and derivative actions, corporate governance cases, and shareholder rights litigation for some of the world’s largest institutional investors. Through these representations, he has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for defrauded investors in precedent-setting cases. As a member of Olshan’s premier national shareholder activism practice, he leverages deep institutional knowledge and streamlined processes to evaluate a client’s range of strategic options, including with an informed view of how each may affect or implicate litigation.
Practice Areas
Education
J.D., Cornell Law School, 2017
- General Editor, Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy
B.A., magna cum laude, Binghamton University, 2014
Admissions
- New York
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
