Contact Info
Email: manderson@fabianlaw.com
Direct Line: 801-323-2267
Fax: 801-596-2814
Matthew L. Anderson
Matt Anderson is a shareholder at Fabian, representing clients in commercial litigation matters including real property, secured lending, bankruptcy and complex collection actions. Matt also assists clients in transactional matters including real property conveyances, secured lending agreements and debt restructuring.
Matt served a one-year clerkship with the Utah Supreme Court and has been a member of Fabian since graduation from Columbia Law School. While active in the legal and local communities, he enjoys working with clients to reach the best solution to their problems, whether through litigation, negotiation or both. He was named one of Utah’s Legal Elite by Utah Business Magazine.
Matt served a one-year clerkship with the Utah Supreme Court and has been a member of Fabian since graduation from Columbia Law School. While active in the legal and local communities, he enjoys working with clients to reach the best solution to their problems, whether through litigation, negotiation or both. He was named one of Utah’s Legal Elite by Utah Business Magazine.
- Practice Areas
- Professional
- Representative Projects
- Education
- Publications & Presentations
- Community Service
- Chair, Utah State Bar Real Property Section
- Chair, Member Benefits Committee, Utah State Bar
- Co- Chair, Utah State Bar Legislative Relations Committee
- Recognized as one of Utah's "Legal Elite," Utah Business Magazine
- Certified Public Mediator, Columbia Law School Mediation Clinic, New York City
- Researched, wrote and disseminated reports, legislative tracking and budget analysis; lobbied for federal education funding
- Judicial Clerk, Justice Leonard H. Russon, Supreme Court of Utah, 1997; Drafted and researched many opinions for submission and publication
- Admitted to Utah State Bar and U.S. District Court, District of Utah, 1996
- Summer Clerk, Sakura Kyodo Law Offices, Tokyo, Japan, 1994; Assisted Japanese and American lawyers on international and U.S. law-related issues
- Director of Constituent Affairs, Utah Governor's Office, 1992-1993; Liaison for the Governor to the public and other governmental entities
- Area Director, Mike Leavitt Gubernatorial Campaign, Utah, 1991-1992; Original staff member on successful gubernatorial campaign, traveled with candidate across state, responsible for grass-roots campaign in area representing 45% of constituency and represented the candidate at a primary election debate and other events
- Intern, Committee for Education Funding, Washington D.C., January-June, 1990
- Matt has represented both sides in secured loan transactions that are in default (if the client is the lender) or in need of restructuring (if the client is the debtor). When negotiations fail, Matt has extensive experience in litigating until judgment, payment or bankruptcy.
- With respect to real property litigation, Matt has represented clients in easement disputes, quiet title actions, title insurance claims and foreclosures. He has also successfully represented landlords in commercial landlord/tenant disputes. Clients have relied on Matt to prosecute and defend mechanic’s lien and other construction related disputes.
- Matt represents large and small companies, public and private, in commercial litigation including corporate governance, licensing, intellectual property and other contractual disputes.
- In the practice of Bankruptcy, Matt has represented creditors in obtaining relief from stay/adequate protection payments for large secured creditors. He has also defended a large construction company in a complex involuntary bankruptcy case. The breadth of his bankruptcy experience includes having represented a Chapter 7 trustee in adversary proceedings involving preferences, fraudulent transfers and other exercises of the trustees strong-arm powers.
- During the legislative session and the 10 months preceding it, Matt represented a select group of national and local clients in furthering their cause before the state legislature.
- Matt has also established a unique expertise representing clients before the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.
- J.D., Columbia Law School, 1996
- Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, 1996
- B. A., Honors, Cum Laude, University of Utah, 1991; English major, Japanese minor
- Honors at Entrance Scholarship (4-year full tuition scholarship), Robert H. Hinckley Graduate Scholar (Graduate School Scholarship), Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi
- Host/Director, Weekly Campus-Wide Forum, Hinckley Institute of Politics
- Author, "International Peacemaking and Peacekeeping Activities in the Post-Cold War World and its Relationship to Domestic Implementation of International Obligations: A Summary," Trilateral Perspectives on International Legal Issues
- Head Notes Editor, Environmental Law Journal
- Member of Board of Directors and Big Brother, Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Utah
- Volunteer, 2002 Olympic Games, Salt Lake City, Utah
- Member, Governor Leavitt's Transition Team, Department of Environmental Quality
- Volunteer Representative, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Tokyo, Japan
- Japanese fluency, literature, golf, basketball, member of National Champion Highland High Rugby Club, little league coach, etc.