Matthew H.
Baughman
(Matt)

At the Department of Justice, Matt oversaw white collar enforcement in the Office of the Deputy Attorney General.  He was appointed to be the first Director of the Task Force on Market Integrity and Consumer Fraud, established by the President’s Executive Order 13844 to provide guidance for the investigation and prosecution of cases involving financial fraud, health care fraud, fraud on the government, and cyber and other consumer fraud.  https://www.justice.gov/fraudtaskforce. 

During his time at the Department, Matt spearheaded the development of enforcement policies governing the Department’s 115,000 employees relating to corporate cooperation, individual accountability in corporate cases, fines and penalties in parallel investigations, corporate compliance, monitorships, the use of agency guidance documents in criminal and civil investigations, and False Claims Act cases. 

In private practice, Matt has deep expertise representing pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, hospital systems, and other providers in criminal and False Claims Act investigations by the Department and multiple U.S. Attorney’s Offices around the country.  He regularly counsels companies subject to parallel investigations, and his experience enables him to coordinate a client’s response to multiple investigatory, litigation, and public relations challenges that can culminate into an enterprise-threatening crisis. 

Matt also has a breadth of experience representing companies in some of the most intense areas of government interest, including cyber-security, mortgage-backed securities and related products, automobile safety, sanctioned countries, and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.  Matt has also navigated clients through dozens of SEC investigations where no charges were brought against his clients, even in cases where the government sought billions of dollars in penalties against other entities. 

Matt began his career in New York as a lawyer in the litigation department of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.  Before going to the Department in 2018, he was a partner in King & Spalding’s Special Matters and Government Investigations practice for more than ten years.