- Attorney Mathew successfully defended a large restaurant chain for alleged violations of criminal health code statutes. After trial, the court dismissed all charges against the restaurant chain and its principal owner.
- The IRS had assessed our client $500,000 in personal liability for the corporation's failure to pay withholding taxes. Mathew & Associates demonstrated that the executive had been wrongly assessed, and the IRS agreed to reduce his liability to zero.
- Some $250,000 in deductions was disallowed on a corporation's tax return. We prevailed at the appellate level of the IRS, which subsequently accepted 100 percent of the deductions.
- An attorney was investigated for criminal violations of the IRS code. Mr. Mathew was able to explain the situation to IRS fraud investigators, who declined to prosecute. An indictment would have ruined the client's career.
- Recently, a corporate executive and his wife were sued for fraud. As a result of discovery disputes the Arizona court entered a default judgment against the business executive and his wife, exposing the couple to a judgment in excess of $22,000,000. Subsequently, Ivan Mathews was retained and succeeded in having the default judgment reversed on terms favorable to the couple.
- Ivan Mathew was chosen by the former chief judge of the Arizona Court of Appeals to represent her in her divorce against her lawyer-husband.
- In one of the longest lasting divorces in Arizona, Ivan Mathew was the wife's sixth lawyer and managed her divorce despite her husband's extraordinary efforts to prevent the divorce from going forward. In addition to a large division of property, Ivan Mathew secured a judgment for attorney's fees and expenses of $350,000 for the wife against the husband.
- Retained by the Governor of the State of Arizona to represent his former employees in an alleged multi-million-dollar bank fraud scheme.
- Retained by the State of Arizona in a federal grand jury health care investigation.
- IRS Assessment. Successfully represented the president of a corporation who was personally assessed over $500,000 by Internal Revenue Service for the failure of the corporation to pay Federal withholding taxes. After being retained by the president, the assessment was reduced from approximately $542,000 to $0.
- Lead counsel in successful defense of $500,000,000 real estate holding company under a three-year securities fraud investigation by U.S., Arizona and Canadian authorities. Supervised and closely worked with other law firms
- Anti-Trust. Represented U.S. government bond dealers in federal grand jury investigation of alleged nationwide price fixing scheme in violation of federal price fixing and anti-trust laws.
- Matrixx Corp. v. Jones. Successfully defended client accused of defamation and trade disparagement on the Internet. Issues included complex assessment of jurisdiction and First Amendment matters.
- United States v. DeJong. Successfully defended client against alleged criminal violations of the Federal Clean Water Act. Obtained jury verdict of "Not Guilty" on all counts. Federal Court granted defense motions and limited the term "navigable waterways of the United States" to only those waters of the U.S. involved in interstate commerce; a narrower definition than set forth in the Code of Federal Regulations. Subsequently, in 2000, the court granted $210,000 in attorney's fees against the government, in one of only three of cases to do so in America. On appeal, the United States Court of Appeals affirmed the award of fees in its entirety and awarded an additional $43,000 in attorney's fees.
- Magellan v. KPMG. Obtained successful settlement Act in accounting malpractice lawsuit in Federal Court against an international 'Big Four" accounting firm.
- State of Arizona v. Trunnelle. Lead counsel in first-degree murder case in which government investigators coherced an alleged videotape confession by client to the death of a child. Moments before trial was to commence, the State of Arizona dismissed all charges. The defense established that the confession was medically impossible.
- Represented an attorney accused of fraud by his multi-millionaire real estate client. After a trial, the jury found for the attorney.
- Represented four death row inmates on pro bono basis. No client has been executed.
- United States v. Johnson. Lead attorney for the United States of America in a four-month Federal criminal trial involving eleven co-defendants and five separate fraud conspiracies. The jury found all defendants guilty.
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