Matt Denn joined Bifferato in 2009 and practices in the firm’s Commercial Bankruptcy and Commercial and Corporate Litigation departments. He was elected State Insurance Commissioner in 2004 and served in that capacity until January 2009. Prior to joining Bifferato, he worked with the Delaware Volunteer Legal Services and as a partner at another Delaware law firm.

As Governor Ruth Ann Minner's legal counsel from 2001 through 2003, Matt wrote several of the Governor's major legislative initiatives, such as the Patients Bill of Rights, regulating health insurance companies, anti-terrorism legislation, environmental legislation, and legislation protecting school teachers from lawsuits. He also represented the Governor on a variety of task forces, including the Governor's Strategic Economic Council and the Governor's Cancer Task Force.

Matt received the Distinguished Service Award from the Young Lawyers Section of the Delaware State Bar Association. In 1998, he was appointed chairman of Delaware's new Child Protection Accountability Commission, a commission set up in the aftermath of the deaths of several children in state care. He also served on a variety of boards and commissions, including Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Delaware, the Wilmington Civil Rights Commission, and the Kutz Home. He has also served as an adjunct professor at Widener University Law School in the area of constitutional law.