Matthew Morantz

Matthew Morantz is an associate in the Litigation practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s New York office.  He maintains a litigation and arbitration practice focused on complex international commercial and patent disputes.

Mr. Morantz, a dual common and civil-law trained attorney, has practiced in both the United States and France, and has served as counsel in threatened or actual litigation or arbitration across five continents. He has successfully represented clients in over 25 arbitrations under the rules of the ICC, AAA/ICDR, LCIA, SIAC, ICSID, SCC, and UNCITRAL.

He is admitted to the New York Bar; as well as the bars of the U.S. District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second and Federal Circuits and the U.S. Court of International Trade.

Prior to attending law school, Mr. Morantz clerked with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office’s Chemical Patent Division, and worked in the Department of Chemistry at McGill University, where he undertook advanced organic synthesis, computational modeling and nanomaterials research projects.