MattSheehan
Associate
Litigation
msheehan@seyfarth.com
"When everyone else says, ‘There’s no way,’ let me take a look."
More About Matt
Matt helps clients navigate the legal challenges of sophisticated construction projects, which often involve many stakeholders, layers of interwoven obligations, and numerous documents and witnesses. At the outset of a case, clients trust Matt to quickly process the critical issues driving the dispute, identify their strongest arguments, and develop a strategy to efficiently build the case with an eye toward success at trial.
Where you litigate can substantially affect the likelihood of success in a client’s case. Matt often helps clients at the outset of their cases evaluate what forum is best for their dispute and navigate the procedural battles to stay there.
Matt relishes the opportunity to work on very complicated, challenging cases, pouring over the contracts, facts, and law to help clients come up with their strongest arguments in their most challenging times.
"When working with me, clients can expect me to be attentive, detail-oriented, and competitive—wanting to win their case as badly as they do."
Where you litigate can substantially affect the likelihood of success in a client’s case. Matt often helps clients at the outset of their cases evaluate what forum is best for their dispute and navigate the procedural battles to stay there.
Matt relishes the opportunity to work on very complicated, challenging cases, pouring over the contracts, facts, and law to help clients come up with their strongest arguments in their most challenging times.
"When working with me, clients can expect me to be attentive, detail-oriented, and competitive—wanting to win their case as badly as they do."
- JD, University of Texas School of Law
- Texas
- Washington
- US Supreme Court
- US Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
- US District Court, Southern District of Texas
- Represented energy company in arbitration concerning construction of a desulfurization unit that failed to meet performance criteria
- Represented public U.K. company and domestic subsidiaries in disputes concerning their alleged responsibility on a third party’s contract following third party’s bankruptcy, including defense of the public company’s CEO’s deposition
- Represented energy company in arbitration concerning nine-figure contract dispute with gas producer in southeast New Mexico, including serving as lead drafter of pre- and post-arbitration briefing
- Successfully defended against challenge to Texas personal jurisdiction in contract dispute concerning wells in Oklahoma
- Domesticated Puerto Rico judgment in Texas, defeating through briefing and oral argument opposing party’s motion to vacate, TRO, and TI application
"When everyone else says, ‘There’s no way,’ let me take a look."
More About Matt
Matt helps clients navigate the legal challenges of sophisticated construction projects, which often involve many stakeholders, layers of interwoven obligations, and numerous documents and witnesses. At the outset of a case, clients trust Matt to quickly process the critical issues driving the dispute, identify their strongest arguments, and develop a strategy to efficiently build the case with an eye toward success at trial.
Where you litigate can substantially affect the likelihood of success in a client’s case. Matt often helps clients at the outset of their cases evaluate what forum is best for their dispute and navigate the procedural battles to stay there.
Matt relishes the opportunity to work on very complicated, challenging cases, pouring over the contracts, facts, and law to help clients come up with their strongest arguments in their most challenging times.
"When working with me, clients can expect me to be attentive, detail-oriented, and competitive—wanting to win their case as badly as they do."
Where you litigate can substantially affect the likelihood of success in a client’s case. Matt often helps clients at the outset of their cases evaluate what forum is best for their dispute and navigate the procedural battles to stay there.
Matt relishes the opportunity to work on very complicated, challenging cases, pouring over the contracts, facts, and law to help clients come up with their strongest arguments in their most challenging times.
"When working with me, clients can expect me to be attentive, detail-oriented, and competitive—wanting to win their case as badly as they do."
- JD, University of Texas School of Law
- Texas
- Washington
- US Supreme Court
- US Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
- US District Court, Southern District of Texas
- Represented energy company in arbitration concerning construction of a desulfurization unit that failed to meet performance criteria
- Represented public U.K. company and domestic subsidiaries in disputes concerning their alleged responsibility on a third party’s contract following third party’s bankruptcy, including defense of the public company’s CEO’s deposition
- Represented energy company in arbitration concerning nine-figure contract dispute with gas producer in southeast New Mexico, including serving as lead drafter of pre- and post-arbitration briefing
- Successfully defended against challenge to Texas personal jurisdiction in contract dispute concerning wells in Oklahoma
- Domesticated Puerto Rico judgment in Texas, defeating through briefing and oral argument opposing party’s motion to vacate, TRO, and TI application