Matthew Mazur > Dechert LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

Matthew Mazur

+44 20 7184 7487 matthew.mazur@dechert.com

Work Department

White Collar, Compliance and Investigations

Position

Partner

Career

Matt Mazur is an experienced American litigator who advises corporate and individual clients in U.S. government investigations, enforcement proceedings, internal investigations, and related litigation.  Based in London, Mr. Mazur has significant experience 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).  He also litigates complex commercial disputes in U.S. federal and state courts, as well as commercial arbitrations.

Mr. Mazur has been lead defense counsel or co-counsel in over twenty jury trials and bench trials, and he has briefed and argued over twenty 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 Circuit.

Before joining Dechert in 2011, Mr. Mazur served for seven years as a public defender, first 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 serves on the Board of Trustees of the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, a community-based public defender in New York City.

Memberships

• New York Council of Defense Lawyers
• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

Education

• Yale University, B.A., 1998
• Harvard Law School, J.D., 2004