2026 Sponsor Profiles

Matt is head of the Music practice and a leader of the Copyright practice. He has led and managed Billions of dollars in transactions involving copyrights and other intellectual property rights.

Clients value Matt’s client-centric and strategic approach to the practice of law. He recognizes it is essential to understand each client’s business and goals. After gaining that understanding, Matt applies his client-praised negotiation and drafting skills and his in-depth knowledge of the law to go to work for his clients.

Significant components of Matt’s practice include:
−Representing buyers and sellers in the purchase and sale of recorded music catalogs, music publishing catalogs, royalty streams, and related businesses. His work on these transactions includes drafting and negotiating the transaction agreements and conducting legal due diligence examinations. Matt’s detailed knowledge about public performance rights and performing rights organizations, neighboring rights and neighboring rights collection organizations, and the copyright law play an important role in these matters.
−Assisting creators (e.g., songwriters and recording artists) and their families with recapturing copyrights. Matt helps creators and their families exercise termination rights under the Copyright Law of the United States for the purpose of recapturing copyrights in creative works. He also advises and assists creators and their families with the administration and/or sale of all or a part of the recaptured rights and related royalty streams.
−General outside counsel to music companies and book publishing companies.
−Representing live event venues for their performer engagement and music licensing needs.
−Technology and software development, licensing, and procurement transactions for national and international businesses. His work in this area includes drafting and negotiating cloud services agreements, generative AI acceptable use policies, and first of their kind agreements regarding the use of generative AI to create advertising and marketing materials.
−Copyright counseling to businesses in various industries in connection with the creation, ownership, licensing, and use of works of authorship (e.g., musical compositions, sound recordings, books, computer programs, movies, paintings, and photographs). As part of this work, Matt advises clients on developments in the copyright law, such as on the intersection of generative AI and the copyright law and in respect of the Music Modernization Act and regulations implementing the Mechanical Licensing Collective.