Matt W. Moran

Matthew W. Moran is a partner with Vinson & Elkins LLP in Dallas. He is an accomplished trial lawyer who represents plaintiffs and defendants in a wide array of complex commercial disputes. Mr. Moran serves as head of V&E’s Restructuring Litigation practice and co-head of V&E’s Law Firm Defense practice. He represents debtors and creditors in bankruptcy matters, as well as has defended attorneys against professional liability claims. He also represents financial institutions, private-equity firms and private-equity portfolio companies involved in complex litigation. Mr. Moran has been listed in Chambers USA, Legal 500 U.S. and Euromoney’s Benchmark Litigation. Among other activities, he secured summary judgment dismissing a legal malpractice suit in Dallas County State District Court, successfully defended an international bank in Dallas County State District Court in a breach-of-contract lawsuit brought by two hedge funds relating to various swap transactions, was one of the lead litigators representing four individuals in an ICDR arbitration against a private-equity fund, obtained a multimillion dollar (net) arbitration award on behalf of a bank client against various obligors and guarantors, defended district court litigation brought by two United Mine Workers of America funds that sought to recover Coal Act liabilities by reopening a decades-old bankruptcy case to argue that all Coal Act liabilities had previously been discharged, and obtained favorable settlement on behalf of the bank in a lender liability lawsuit based on embezzlement by a bank customer’s employee. Mr. Moran received his B.A. summa cum laude in 1994 from Texas A&M University and his J.D. with honors in 1997 from the University of Texas School of Law, where he was admitted to the Order of the Coif.