Partner
St. Louis, MO
Matthew (Matt) Grant has 24 years of experience in various litigation, arbitration, and bankruptcy matters. His practice focuses on legal issues impacting members of the Agricultural Industry, including Ag IP litigation, Ag financing, and manufacturing industries such as steel and wire/cable. He has tried bench and jury trial matters to verdict and arbitration matters to a final award. Matt’s litigation practice has included matters ranging from commercial disputes such as breach of contract, supplier defects, debt collection and negligence, to defense of toxic tort claims.
He has also assisted employers with white collar and employee embezzlement matters including coordination with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Defense of Trade Secrets Act (DTSA).
His practice has included advising Ag clients on matters such as utility and plant patents, trademarks, plant variety protection, IP licensing, herbicide drift and regulations, crop seed bag labeling, and crop performance, as well as a variety of other legal issues involving crops ranging from corn, soybeans, wheat and cotton to alfalfa, canola, milo, turf grass, kidney beans, sesame seeds, green peppers, green beans, and lentils. Many of these matters involved alleged infringement and/or crop seed infringement/piracy.
Additionally, Matt has defended food and consumer product manufacturers faced with class action cases based upon product labeling. These putative class claims have focused on product performance claims that were allegedly improper in some manner and claims relating to “All Natural” and “Made in America” language and these matters often involve claims arising under the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act (MMPA) or similar state and federal statutes. He has defended consumer fraud class actions including litigating a product labeling class action and MDL case that involved a nationwide class certification that was successfully overturned by the Eighth Circuit that involved Comcast and Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) issues.
Matt also has unique experience in toxic tort (asbestos, glyphosate, paraquat, vinyl chloride monomer, and benzene) individual and class action cases, including the unique defense of a toxic tort medical monitoring class action and his development of a class wide medical monitoring program.
When not working, you’ll find Matt spending time with his sons or riding his Harley Davidson.
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Matthew (Matt) Grant has 24 years of experience in various litigation, arbitration, and bankruptcy matters. His practice focuses on legal issues impacting members of the Agricultural Industry, including Ag IP litigation, Ag financing, and manufacturing industries such as steel and wire/cable. He has tried bench and jury trial matters to verdict and arbitration matters to a final award. Matt’s litigation practice has included matters ranging from commercial disputes such as breach of contract, supplier defects, debt collection and negligence, to defense of toxic tort claims.
He has also assisted employers with white collar and employee embezzlement matters including coordination with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Defense of Trade Secrets Act (DTSA).
His practice has included advising Ag clients on matters such as utility and plant patents, trademarks, plant variety protection, IP licensing, herbicide drift and regulations, crop seed bag labeling, and crop performance, as well as a variety of other legal issues involving crops ranging from corn, soybeans, wheat and cotton to alfalfa, canola, milo, turf grass, kidney beans, sesame seeds, green peppers, green beans, and lentils. Many of these matters involved alleged infringement and/or crop seed infringement/piracy.
Additionally, Matt has defended food and consumer product manufacturers faced with class action cases based upon product labeling. These putative class claims have focused on product performance claims that were allegedly improper in some manner and claims relating to “All Natural” and “Made in America” language and these matters often involve claims arising under the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act (MMPA) or similar state and federal statutes. He has defended consumer fraud class actions including litigating a product labeling class action and MDL case that involved a nationwide class certification that was successfully overturned by the Eighth Circuit that involved Comcast and Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) issues.
Matt also has unique experience in toxic tort (asbestos, glyphosate, paraquat, vinyl chloride monomer, and benzene) individual and class action cases, including the unique defense of a toxic tort medical monitoring class action and his development of a class wide medical monitoring program.
When not working, you’ll find Matt spending time with his sons or riding his Harley Davidson.
Prior to joining Practus, Matt was a senior partner at Husch Blackwell LLP where he focused his practice on Commercial Litigation, IP litigation and Toxic Tort litigation matters.
At Practus, we handle complex and challenging legal matters. I look forward to talking to you about how we can best meet your goals.
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