Matthew S. Kahn is a senior associate in the San Francisco office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.  He is a member of the firm's Litigation Department and practices in the Securities Litigation Group and Class Action and Complex Litigation Group.  He is also a member of the firm's Electronic Data Discovery Initiative, a task force dedicated to issues of electronic discovery, information law and records management.

Mr. Kahn’s practice focuses on securities and derivative litigation, consumer and wage-and-hour class action defense, and information law.  He has successfully represented clients throughout the country in complex cases in federal and state court, involving claims, among others, under Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; breach of fiduciary duties and insider trading under Delaware, California and New York law; California's Unfair Competition Law and Consumer Legal Remedies Act; and the federal Fair Labor Standards Act.  Mr. Kahn also has significant experience in the prosecution and defense of commercial contracts and business tort actions.  In addition, Mr. Kahn has extensive expertise regarding complex information law matters in numerous federal and state jurisdictions.

Mr. Kahn clerked for the Honorable Mary L. Cooper, United States District Judge for the District of New Jersey, from 2003 to 2004.  Mr. Kahn received his law degree, with honors, from Stanford Law School in 2003. He received his B.A. in political science with honors, from Swarthmore College in 1999, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Mr. Kahn serves on Gibson Dunn's Bay Area Pro Bono Committee and is on the Board of Directors of Compass Community Services, which serves families confronting poverty and homelessness by supporting their efforts to achieve stability and realize their individual potential.  Mr. Kahn is an active provider of pro bono legal services, including representation of Tipping Point Community.  In 2009, Mr. Kahn won an appeal against the German government on behalf of a Holocaust survivor who had been denied pension benefits.  In 2008, Mr. Kahn was honored for his pro bono efforts on behalf of victims of domestic violence when he was given the Above and Beyond Award by Sanctuary for Families, the largest nonprofit in New York State dedicated exclusively to serving domestic violence victims and their children.

Mr. Kahn is admitted to practice in the states of California and New York.  He is a member of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers.