Matt Mazur is an experienced American litigator based in London. He specializes in defense of corporate and individual clients in multi-agency and cross-border investigations involving a range of U.S. authorities, including the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), including related civil litigation. He also conducts internal investigations and litigates complex commercial disputes in U.S. federal and state courts, as well as commercial arbitrations. He is listed in The Legal 500 UK for Fraud: White-Collar Crime: Advice to Individuals (2024) and Regulatory Investigations and Corporate Crime (2024), with clients praising his "excellent technical subject matter knowledge, problem solving skills, and a real knack for explaining very complex aspects of the investigation in realistic terms."
Mr. Mazur has been lead defense counsel or co-counsel in over twenty jury trials and bench trials, and he has briefed and argued appeals before the New York Court of Appeals, the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second and Seventh Circuits. In 2015, Mr. Mazur was recognized as a "Rising Star" by the New York Law Journal, placing him among a select group of lawyers under age 40 who have established a record of accomplishments, as well as demonstrated that they are top contributors to the practice of law and their communities. In 2018, he moved from Dechert’s New York office to the London office to better serve European, Middle Eastern, and African clients in connection with U.S. investigations and litigation.
Before joining Dechert in 2011, Mr. Mazur served for seven years as a public defender, first in the trial division at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia and then the Office of the Appellate Defender in New York City. He regularly provides pro bono representation to indigent men and women in criminal matters in federal and state court. In March 2015, he won a complete acquittal after a two-week jury trial for a pro bono client charged with armed robbery in Queens Supreme Court. In November 2016, he won another complete dismissal of child abuse allegations after a bench trial for a pro bono client in the New York Family Court.
Mr. Mazur chairs the advisory board of the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, a community-based public defender in New York City. He is also one of Dechert’s diversity liaison partners.
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- Yale University, B.A., 1998
- Harvard Law School, J.D., 2004
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- New York
- District of Columbia
- Registered Foreign Lawyer, England and Wales
- United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
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- New York Council of Defense Lawyers
- National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
- New York Council of Defense Lawyers