Matteson Ellis
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- Adjunct Professor
Matteson Ellis founded and leads Miller & Chevalier's globally recognized Latin America practice, ranked as the sole Chambers Latin America Band 1 International Counsel firm for Corporate Crime & Investigations. He guides clients on cross-border internal investigations and corporate compliance strategies to address bribery and corruption/U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) allegations, transnational criminal organization (TCO) and Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) exposure, related economic sanctions and anti-money laundering (AML) risks, and similarly sensitive ethics and compliance matters.
As a multilingual attorney, Matteson Ellis has performed on-site investigations in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Africa. He is a recognized leader in Latin America, having been selected as a Chambers Global and Chambers Latin America Band 1 attorney for corporate crime and investigations in the region for more than a decade. One client tells Chambers Latin America, "He literally wrote the book on Latin American corporate crime," and another states, "He is one of the best compliance lawyers I have ever worked with, not just for his knowledge of the field, but also his accuracy and decisiveness in implementing compliance matters in complicated markets." Matt is regularly named one of Latin America's top 100 lawyers by Latinvex, which recognizes him as "the leading expert on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and Latin America."
Matt is preeminent in the burgeoning legal field of organized crime, anti-terrorism, and corporate compliance in Latin America. He also specializes in multilateral development bank (MDB) and World Bank investigations and sanctions proceedings. He previously worked as a Litigation Specialist and Investigator at the World Bank Integrity Vice Presidency (INT) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Office of Institutional Integrity (OII).
Matt is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese and spent several years in Latin America working for a Fortune 50 multinational corporation and a government ethics watchdog group. Matt has published various books and articles and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post on his areas of expertise.
Matt is Co-Founder and Board of Trustees Chairman Emeritus of The School for Ethics and Global Leadership in Washington, DC. A native Texan and married to a Longhorn, Matt received his B.A. in English at Dartmouth College, his J.D. at Georgetown University Law Center (cum laude), and his Master of Science in Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
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