Mathew B Rabin

Mathew B. Rabin is an experienced attorney specializing in entertainment, media, technology, apparel and fashion industry transactions and all corporate and business agreements.

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Mathew B. Rabin is the founder of the Law Offices of Mathew B. Rabin, A Professional Law Corporation, where he serves as president and managing director of the practice. Matt has devoted his practice to transactional negotiations and all related pursuits across many industries, including entertainment and media, technology, apparel, footwear and related industries, hospitality, and consumer products. He regularly handles general corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, for small to large closely held businesses in many fields.

Matt worked in the Business and Legal Affairs group of MGM Worldwide Television, where he negotiated and drafted domestic and international distribution and licensing agreements and all other contracts related to MGM’s international sales and networks groups, including business alliances and joint ventures. He advised senior MGM management regarding all business and legal arrangements entered into by the television production and distribution divisions of MGM.

Prior to joining MGM, Matt served as Director of Business Affairs and Acquisitions for Sony Pictures Television International, where he negotiated and drafted a multitude of agreements, including licensing agreements, production deals, output agreements and talent contracts that arose under Sony’s international television networks. He counseled Sony’s senior business and legal executives as to the legal and commercial issues related to his negotiations. As an acquisitions executive, he attended film and television markets with an eye toward product that would best serve to grow Sony’s international networks.

Before joining Sony Pictures, Matt established his own private practice where he handled a variety of transactional matters, from judicial foreclosures to employment and real estate contract negotiations. His commercial transactions included structuring, negotiating and drafting rights acquisitions for traditional and new media, including video game, Internet and print media rights. He has also provided legal counsel to the textile and apparel industry, handling contract negotiations from garment manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers and affiliated sub-licensees.

Matt attended the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, where he received his BA, cum laude, in Communication. He received his Juris Doctor from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, California. Matt is a member of the State Bar of California and the US District Court Bar, Central District of California, and is also admitted to the Bar of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.