Matthew L. Cantor is a partner in the law firm of Constantine Cannon, LLP. He is a well-recognized expert in antitrust litigation and counseling, including matters that specifically concern the telecommunications, media, health services and financial services industries. Mr. Cantor has displayed his antitrust and telecommunications expertise by representing parties that own or wish to acquire substantial telephony assets and operations, cable properties, television broadcast stations, satellite television providers and video-programming services. He represented The News Corporation Limited in connection with numerous transactions, including its sale of its DirecTV assets to Liberty Media Corporation, its $5 billion acquisition of Chris-Craft Industries, Inc., its $5 billion sale of Fox Family WorldWide, Inc. to The Walt Disney Company. He actively opposed the proposed merger of Echostar Communications and DirecTV -- a transaction eventually opposed by the United States and 23 states Attorneys General -- and the sale of cable assets from Adelphia Communications to Time Warner Cable and Comcast Corporation -- a transaction that was only approved after the Federal Communications Commission placed substantial conditions upon the acquiring parties that Mr. Cantor advocated.

Mr. Cantor was also on the lead counsel team for the plaintiffs in a major antitrust dispute concerning electronic payment systems entitled Wal-Mart, The Limited, Sears, Safeway, Circuit City, et. al. v. Visa and MasterCard and In re Visa Check/MasterMoney Antitrust Litigation. That matter resulted in the largest settlement in antitrust history, valued conservatively at approximately $28 billion. On payments issues, he currently represents Morgan Stanley/Discover in a multi-billion dollar antitrust action against Visa and MasterCard for damages caused by their rules that precluded financial institutions from offering Discover cards to consumers.

In the health services arena, Mr. Cantor represents Ortho Biotech, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, in a litigation with Amgen, Inc. concerning exclusionary bundling practices related to pharmaceutical products. he also represents a radiology practice in a group boycott case brought against an independent practice association that has exclusive contract with the largest commercial insurance companies in New York City.

Mr. Cantor is also currently co-lead counsel for the plaintiffs in Funeral Consumers Alliance, et al. v. Service Corporation International, et al. -- a multi-billion dollar class action antitrust litigation concerning conspiracies to eliminate discount competition in casket sales pending in the Southern District of Texas.

Further, Mr. Cantor has broad experience in federal and state general commercial litigation and arbitration. Mr. Cantor has litigated disputes involving, among other things, real estate, partnership, contract and securities law.

Mr. Cantor graduated from the New York University School of Law in 1995 and from the University of Michigan in 1992, with High Distinction and with a major in English. While in law school, Mr. Cantor represented underprivileged persons who sought SSI disability benefits while participating in NYU's Civil Legal Services Clinic. Prior to joining Constantine & Partners, Mr. Cantor was associated with the firm of Whitman Breed Abbott & Morgan LLP.

Mr. Cantor is a member of the Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association and the Antitrust Section of the New York State Bar Association. He is admitted to practice before New York State courts, the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York and Southern District of New York and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Mr. Cantor has also spoken and written numerous times about antitrust and litigation topics, including the application and relevance of the antitrust laws to businesses involved in radio, internet, video-programming, video-distribution and telephony. He is the author of the following articles:

• Class Potential for Interchange Lawsuit, American Banker (July 20, 2007)
• Congress Limits Antitrust Liability for Standard-Setting Groups, New York Law Journal (June 7, 2005)
• Dominating Digital Music, National Law Journal (June 6, 2005)
• Vague Law Leads To Havoc, National Law Journal (September 20, 2004)
• How Powerful Are Broadcasters?, Multichannel News (June 7, 2004)
• Rigging the System: Permitting Anticompetitive Settlements, The Health Lawyer (June 2004) (with Jeffrey Shinder)
• Wal-Mart Decision Illustrates Merchants' New Debit Power, American Banker (February 6, 2004) (with Jeffrey Shinder)
• Do Federal Securities Regulations Trump State Antitrust Law?, New York Law Journal (December 11, 2003)
• Connecticut's Bid to Stop and Oracle/PeopleSoft Deal, New York Law Journal (Tuesday, July 1, 2003), Outside Counsel
• Local Carriers Charge Regional Bells with Antitrust Violations, Los Angeles Daily Journal (Wednesday, July 24, 2002)
• Consolidation Raises Antitrust Issues, Multichannel News (June 17, 2002) (with Jeffrey Shinder)
• The Southern Strategy, Legal Times (April 22, 2002)
• Smart Antitrust Compliance Programs, The Corporate Board (January/February 2002) (with Jeffrey Shinder)
• Calling the Shots, Los Angeles Daily Journal (Wednesday, November 14, 2002)
• When Can an Action Be Brought to Enjoin a Merger?, Insight (September 2001)
• Antitrust's Role In Overbuilder/Franchise Dealings, Multichannel News (July 30, 2001)
• An Expulsion Remedy Provision: A Clear and Straightforward Penalty, Mealey's Cyber Tech & E-Commerce (July 2001)
• Do Internet Portals Bar the Door to Competition?, New York Law Journal (Monday, March 5, 2001), Outside Counsel
• Curtailing Monopoly Leveraging In Long Distance Markets, New York Law Journal (Thursday, December 2, 1999), Corporate Update