Matt Tharp

Associate Litigation

New York +1 212 909 3332

Matt Tharp

Overview

Matt Tharp is a litigation associate in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP.

Hebron Technology, a Chinese pipe and valve fittings manufacturer, defended and won full dismissal in 2021 for the company and certain of its officers of a consolidated securities fraud class action relating to allegations of related party transactions and ineffective disclosure controls.

Jiayin Group, a Chinese financial services company, and its CEO and CFO, defending in purported class action litigation alleging violations of sections 11 and 15 of the Securities Act related to the company’s IPO.

Vista Equity Partners, Ping Identity Holding Corp., and certain of Ping’s directors and officers in putative class action litigation alleging violations of Sections 11, 12(a)(2), and 15 of the Securities Act of 1933 in connection with a secondary securities offering.

Judicial ClerkHonorable Gabriel W. GorensteinUnited States District Court for the Southern District of New York2019–2020

Judicial ExternHonorable Naomi Reice BuchwaldUnited States District Court for the Southern District of New YorkSpring 2019

Summer Associate, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, New York, 2018

Summer Associate, Steptoe & Johnson LLP, Washington D.C., 2017

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Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2020New York

Courts

  • United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
  • United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

Education

  • Washington University in St. Louis, School of LawJ.D.cum laude2019

    Webster Society Scholar

    Dean's Leadership Award

    Kirkland & Ellis 1L Diversity Scholar

    Leadership Council on Legal Diversity 1L Scholar

    CALI Award: Feminist Theories, Feminist Judgments (Fall 2017); Regulating Sex (Fall 2017)

    Staff Editor, Washington University Journal of Law and Policy

    Instructor, "Law, Gender, and Justice" Undergraduate Course, Spring 2018

    Co-Chair, OUTLaw Midwest LGBTQ+ Law Conference, Spring 2017

  • University of MissouriB.A., Political Science; Leadership and Public Service Minorcum laude2014