Matt is a business and technology lawyer and mediator. Over the course of more than 30 years he has worked on deals, dispute resolution, bankruptcies, and many aspects of starting, running, growing, and buying and selling businesses and assets, with a focus on tech and intellectual property, among other areas. Entrepreneurial, he co-founded a music-related tech start-up. He segued into in-house general counsel roles, primarily in new and disruptive tech, more than 20 years ago, including in decentralized P2P media distribution apps and ad tech, a UGC and publisher growth stage tech start-up acquired by Intuit, and an ad-tech company with multiple consumer apps (including P2P) also acquired by a public company. Matt worked and works for technology, entertainment, and evolving media clients, among others. Matt was GC for Morpheus while it was embroiled in high-stakes copyright litigation through the U.S. Supreme Court GC in the oft cited MGM/Grokster case 1 ). He taught IP Licensing law at Pepperdine Law School.

Matt has extensive legal strategy, tactics, and execution experience within fast-growing, disruptive, technology companies, has strong business judgment, operational experience and cultural values, and partners well with all levels of management, business, and technology teams. Matt is driven to contribute to, and motivated by, outstanding leadership, products and services, and customer-oriented values and commitments to teamwork, diversity, equality and inclusion.He practices and advocates mindfulness and well-being in the law.

Matt likes to swim and bicycle and asks that you not text and drive.