Michael P. Matthews is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP and serves as chair of the Tampa Litigation Department and as chair of the firm’s False Claims Act Litigation group. As a member of the firm’s Government Enforcement, Compliance & White Collar Defense and Securities Enforcement & Litigation Practices, Mr. Matthews represents individual and corporate clients in a variety of government enforcement and securities litigation matters, including False Claims Act litigation, securities class actions, shareholder derivative actions, SEC enforcement matters, and white collar criminal matters, as well as other complex litigation matters. In particular, he has litigated numerous federal and state qui tam whistleblower cases and has argued a variety of issues arising under the False Claims Act at both the trial and appellate level.

A member of Foley’s Health Care Industry Team and co-chair of the firm’s Health Care Litigation group, he has represented individuals and entities in many aspects of the health care industry, including managed care, medical device manufacturing, pharmaceutical manufacturing, health care provider systems, biotechnology, diagnostics, pharmacy and pharmacy benefit management, and medical equipment providers. To watch a video clip of a recent oral argument by Mr. Matthews at the Florida Supreme Court, see http://fla.st/1iXZrT2 (in which he successfully argued for the reversal of a client’s conviction and life sentence based on the trial court’s exclusion of another man’s confession to the crime, see “News” at left sidebar).