Arent Fox is pleased to announce that leading sports attorney Matthew D. Pace has joined the firm as a partner in New York.
Mr. Pace is a veteran of the sports industry with more than 20 years of professional experience working for and representing some of the biggest names in the sports industry. Matthew brings hands-on industry experience to the table and focuses on a broad range of sports business matters, including team acquisitions and sales, sponsorship, licensing and promotional agreements, joint venture activities and digital rights and other sports media issues.
Mr. Pace represents sports leagues and teams, sponsors and properties, sports technology companies, investors, licensees and licensors and sports marketing and promotions agencies. His clients have included the Garmin Cervelo Pro Cycling Team, Legend 10, Ultimate Fighting Championship, Northern Lights Hockey, New York Jets, New York Cosmos, Sports Technologies, LLC, NYSE Euronext, Northeast Sports Consultants, Branded Retail Energy Company, Kaleidoscope Sports and Entertainment and Palm Beach International Raceway.
“We are extremely excited that Matt has joined Arent Fox,” said Rich Brand, who heads the firm’s sports practice and is based in the firm’s Washington, DC office. “Matt’s diverse practice will enable our already considerable sports practice to expand into new areas of sports law and, at the same time, add depth to our existing core strengths. With Matt joining Jared Bartie in our New York office and Maidie Oliveau’s highly regarded sports practice in our Los Angeles office, as well as our substantial sports practice in our Washington, DC office, Arent Fox has one of the most experienced, dynamic national sports practices in the United States.”
Prior to joining Arent Fox, Mr. Pace was the Executive Director of Major League Lacrosse; the Executive Vice President of Business Development and General Counsel for GM EventWorks, a company responsible for managing the sports and entertainment alliances for General Motors; a player agent, a business development and partnership consultant to national retailers and marketing companies as well as counsel at a New York law firm.
Mr. Pace serves as co-chair of the sports section of the Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law (EASL) section of the New York State Bar Association. He is a graduate of the Emory University School of Law and he earned his undergraduate degree from Trinity College.
