Matthew is a Singapore Registered Patent Attorney, Australian Patent and Trade Mark Attorney, and New Zealand Patent Attorney, and has been in practice since 1998. 

Matthew holds a BEng and an MBA from the University of Adelaide. He entered the profession in 1998 with a leading Australian patent attorney firm, before moving to Singapore in 2004 to join Lloyd Wise, the predecessor of Marks & Clerk in Singapore.

Matthew has extensive experience in the drafting and prosecution of patent applications including medical technology, such as parenteral devices, ablation apparatus, tissue sampling devices and systems for the petro-chemical industry. He has direct experience in corporate and University-based technology development, and has also been involved in litigation and opposition matters throughout Asia, Australia and Europe, including acting as an expert witness in several matters before the IP Court of Malaya.

Matthew has been named an IP Star by Managing Intellectual Property from 2015 to 2017, 2020, 2021 and was again mentioned in 2022. He is listed in the 2017 IAM Strategy 300 and as a ranked individual in the 2020, 2021 & 2022 IAM Patent 1000 rankings.