Email: matthew.schweighart@erwinlaw.com
Born: Tuscola, Illinois, April 23, 1981
Admitted to Bar: 2006 (Illinois)
Education: University of Illinois (B.S., Finance, 2003); Saint Louis University School of Law (J.D., Certificate of Health Law Studies, 2006)
Member: American and Illinois Bar Associations, C-U One-to-One Mentoring Program, United Way Emerging Community Leaders (Board Member)
Practice Areas: Business Formation & Consulting, Financing, Securities, Mergers & Acquisitions, Intellectual Property, Employment Matters, Estate Planning, Real Estate

Matthew Schweighart utilizes his background in business and his knowledge of the law to serve business and individual clients in a wide range of transactions.

For his business clients, Matthew’s primary goal is to provide straightforward and cost effective legal advice so that business owners can understand and address complex legal issues quickly and efficiently. By trusting Matthew to handle their legal and governance issues, his clients are able to focus their energy where it should be — on running their business and serving their customers.

Matthew has assisted business clients throughout the stages of their development, including: selecting and forming a business entity, protecting their intellectual property, hiring employees and developing stock option plans and employee handbooks, identifying and securing financing (both from conventional sources and in the form of grants, angel investments, and venture capital investments), negotiation of licensing, distribution and manufacturing agreements, and mergers, acquisitions and sales.

Matthew takes the same approach in representing individual clients, striving to provide clear advice at a reasonable cost. He regularly works with individuals and families to develop their estate plans, including wills, trusts, powers of attorney and living wills; and represents buyers and sellers in the purchase and sale of residential and commercial real estate.

Matthew graduated from Saint Louis University School of Law where he was an editor of the Saint Louis University Law Journal, served as a faculty research fellow and earned a Certificate in Health Law Studies from the nation’s top-ranked health law program.
Prior to law school, Matthew earned a bachelor’s degree in Finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, along with a minor in Spanish, and was a member of the Campus Honors Program, a James Newton Matthews Scholar and an Edmund James Scholar.