Results & Past Success

New Business Start-Up

Matt represents thousands of clients in the formation and structuring of their businesses. Examples include:

• LLCs that specialize in:

  • Online distribution of CBD products

  • Buying, flipping, and selling of real estate

  • Graphic design and website creation

  • Restaurant and bar operation

  • Event & wedding planning, photography, music, and event services

  • Fitness, Pilates, and yoga studio operation

  • Business consulting

  • Insurance sales

  • Dry cleaning business operation

• Non-profit entities

• Professional service entities for doctors, lawyers, and mental health professionals

• Complex business entities with different classes of ownership, including voting vs. non-voting and profit interests vs. equity interests

Contract Drafting & Review

Matt regularly drafts contracts for clients in numerous areas, including:

• Master service agreements and product sale agreements between businesses and their customers

• Employment contracts, including non-compete and non-solicitation provisions

• Independent contractor agreements

• Construction contracts for general contractors and sub-contractors

• Commercial & residential lease agreements

• Franchise agreements and disclosure statements

• Internal corporate governance documents and contracts

• Website terms & conditions, privacy policies, and other similar web-based agreements

• Film, television, and entertainment services, licensing, and distribution agreements

Buying or Selling a Business

Matt represents buyers and sellers in a range of business types:

• Purchase of a construction company for $7,750,000.00

• Sale of a technology company with top secret contracts with the Federal Government for $4,000,000.00

• Sale of a home technology and automation company for $1,150,000.00

• Sale of a recreational axe throwing business & bar for $1,000,000.00

• Purchase of an auto repair and inspection business for $450,000.00

• Sale of a waste removal business for $445,000.00

• Sale of a fitness franchise business for $167,000.00

• Sale of an optometry practice for $100,000.00

• Sale of a Pilates franchise for $90,000.00

• Purchase of a floor covering business for approximately $60,000.00

Matt acts as intellectual property protection counsel for clients in numerous areas of business:

• Filing of numerous trademarks for renewable green energy data company

• Trademark filing counsel for financial technology start-up

• Filing of numerous trademarks for dry cleaning franchise

• Trademark filing counsel for online key making business

Matt’s clients trust his advice when working through a dispute with their business partners, whether through litigation or negotiation. Representative matters include:

• $1.1 million verdict against co-owner of a recruiting and staffing company after former owner’s theft of company intellectual property and opening of competing business.

• Forced buy-out of client’s interest in commercial grading business with $2 million in annual revenues after causing co-owners to face civil and criminal contempt proceedings.

• Caused transfer of pool construction business with $1 million in annual sales to client for $0, after co-owner embezzled company money and opened secret bank account.

• Filed suit and amicably resolved intellectual property theft dispute amongst co-owners of first recreational axe throwing business in the U.S.A.

• Advised client on pre-litigation dealings with business partner to prepare for split of ownership in staffing & recruiting business with over $5,000,000.00 in annual revenue.

Matt’s representation in high-stakes litigation matters, varies, including:

• Represented co-owner of urinalysis laboratory in defense against $150 million False Claims Act lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice. Resolved all claims after completion of extensive discovery and defense motion practice.

• Filed $200 million class action fraud lawsuit against two of the largest solar panel installation companies in the United States.

• Brought $300 million claim in arbitration against financial services firm on behalf of professional services company.

• Defended largest home builder in the southeast against multi-million-dollar class action claims for installation of defective drywall.

• Filed and pursued the largest oil spill claim in history against BP, after the 2010 Gulf Oil Spill.