Matt Sumrow represents a wide variety of clients on corporate, securities, mergers and acquisitions and intellectual property law matters, and he has over 10 years of experience practicing and teaching law. Matt is a native Orange County resident and he has numerous clients, professional contacts and community ties throughout Orange County and California.

Matt has represented both public and private companies in numerous securities offering and mergers and acquisitions ranging from a few hundred thousand dollars in value to over three hundred million dollars. He also advises clients on intellectual property matters such as registering and licensing trademarks, software development and licensing, domain name registrations and in efficiently resolving intellectual property infringement disputes. His general corporate experience includes forming and operating corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies, and advising companies on matters such as stock option plans, executive compensation, buy-sell agreements, consulting agreements, joint venture agreements and selling and licensing products.

Matt’s clients include individual investors, small business owners, small and mid-size companies, major universities and Fortune 500 corporations.  He has represented clients on numerous successful transactions, including representing:

• an oil and gas company in a $119,000,000 sale of assets to a public company
• a private company in acquiring multiple automobile dealerships in Southern California
• a NYSE listed mortgage REIT in public stock offerings totaling over $200,000,000
• a real estate investment fund in a private placement of $25,000,000 in equity securities
• a software company in a $13,000,000 venture capital financing led by Goldman Sachs, CMGI and Benchmark Capital Partners
• a NASDAQ traded company in a $55,000,000 merger
• a private fiber optics company in a $35,000,000 merger with a NASDAQ traded corporation
• a fabless semiconductor company in technology development and licensing transactions valued at over $3,000,000 excluding future royalty payments
• a Fortune 500 corporation in negotiating and drafting software licensing and development agreements
• a Fortune 500 homebuilder in trademark registration and licensing matters
• a Fortune 500 corporation in favorably resolving a dispute with a major telecommunications provider and negotiating and drafting a new telecommunications services agreement valued at over $18,000,000

Matt received his bachelor's degree from UCLA and his law degree from the University of California Hastings College of the Law. He also studied international law at Leiden University in The Netherlands and taught corporate law, European Union law and other legal subjects as a professor at a law school in the Czech Republic.

Prior to 2004, Matt was Senior Counsel in the corporate department of the Orange County office of Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory LLP (a law firm of over 200 attorneys).