Edward Calvin Matthews IV

Calvin Matthews, a member of the Corporate Services practice group, serves as outside counsel to a number of major businesses including Sterling Bank, First Community Bank and the area developer and master franchisee for Tim Hortons Cafe and Bake Shops in Missouri and Illinois. In these positions, Calvin handles a wide-range of corporate issues including those related to financial transactions, real estate, employment and labor, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance.

He offers clients a unique combination of skills due to an unusual background that includes in-depth experience as a corporate services attorney, litigator and even a securities trader. Because of this, Calvin has a diverse practice representing a variety of companies from industries as different as apparel, banking and food services. His practice also includes representing clients with cutting edge legal issues such as those in the medical marijuana business in both Missouri and Illinois.

In the corporate services area, many of Calvin’s clients are mid and large-sized closely held businesses. He takes a holistic view of a company’s operations and thus provides a range of needed services, including the review of corporate structure, contracts and policies. He develops strategies aimed at improving operations and minimizing risks.  

When clients face litigation issues, Calvin employs his experience handling contract, insurance, banking, and finance disputes as well as complex multiparty national class action cases. His widely publicized cases include the representation of Jos A. Bank Clothiers Inc. against national class actions as well as the representation of Randall Sutton, the CEO and president of the defunct National Prearranged Funerals Inc. in one of the largest fraud schemes ever prosecuted in the Missouri.