Matthew is a senior associate in the dispute resolution and litigation team at Carey Olsen Bermuda Limited. His practice focuses primarily on litigation and arbitration in the corporate and commercial context.

Matthew has experience litigating a wide variety of commercial disputes, as well as securing injunctions and other orders protecting his client's business interests. He often acts for clients in relation to, among other things, contract, construction, insurance, debt, civil fraud, corporate governance, insolvency and winding up, and shareholder activism matters.

Matthew has recently advised clients with respect to shareholder oppression/unfair prejudice claims pursuant to section 111 of the Companies Act 1981, breach of contract claims enforcing the repayment of outstanding credit facilities, the resolution of company beneficial ownership issues, common law claims related to the exclusion of directors from a company's board of directors, and corporate takeover strategy related to activist shareholders.

Career

Matthew was admitted as a barrister and solicitor in Alberta, Canada in 2018 and in Bermuda in 2025.

Prior to joining Carey Olsen as an associate in 2024, Matthew worked as a litigation associate in the Calgary, Alberta office of one of Canada's largest law firms, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP. During that time, he completed a secondment as in-house litigation counsel at a large Canadian oil and gas company in Calgary.

Matthew received his Juris Doctor (with distinction) from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta. After graduating, Matthew completed a judicial clerkship at the Court of King's Bench in Calgary. Matthew also received his Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and Master of Arts from the University of Western Ontario.