Matthew Gold

Matthew Gold litigates complex disputes on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants.  His experience includes high-stakes business litigation and internal investigations.  

As a former federal prosecutor in the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, he was twice awarded the Assistant Attorney General’s Award of Distinction. While with the DOJ, Mr. Gold prosecuted criminal and civil antitrust matters through trial, conducted criminal investigations, evaluated criminal antitrust leniency applications, and notably served on both the liability and remedies trial teams in the landmark ad tech suit, United States v. Google (E.D. Va).

Mr. Gold’s plaintiffs-side work includes lead class counsel on behalf of a class of former students alleging elite universities conspired to limit financial aid; a proposed class of plaintiffs in an antitrust lawsuit involving price-fixing, market allocation, and information sharing against a nationwide retail buyer’s cooperative and its software provider; a consumer multidistrict antitrust class action against Apple related to its smartwatch; and an antitrust class action alleging that employers of veterinary interns and residents colluded to suppress wages.

In recognition of his standing in the practice, Law360 named Mr. Gold to its Competition Editorial Board where he acts as an industry advisor and provides feedback on Law360’s legal news coverage to help shape the publication’s editorial direction.

Before joining MoloLamken, Mr. Gold clerked for the Honorable Marvin E. Aspen and the Honorable Sunil R. Harjani of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Representative Matters

• Represents a consumer class as part of nationwide class leadership in a multidistrict antitrust action against a major tech company
• Represented the plaintiff in an advertising technology antitrust trial
• Represented the plaintiff in antitrust litigation involving information sharing practices in the agriculture and food-processing sectors
• Served as trial counsel in a criminal bid-rigging prosecution involving the concrete paving and construction industry
• Served as investigative counsel into allegations of criminal bid rigging conduct involving the asphalt paving and construction industry
• Served as investigative counsel into allegations of a criminal “no poach” labor agreement in the financial services sector
• Represented a pharmaceutical manufacturer in antitrust lawsuit
• Represented industrial manufacturer in lawsuit alleging unlawful tying
• Represented a major U.S. bank in a system-wide, government-initiated internal investigation involving allegations of banking fraud
• Served as pro bono trial counsel for a political asylum applicant