Matt Crowley is an international corporate transactional lawyer. Crowley regularly represents tech startups, and enjoys working with first-time entrepreneurs. On the other side of his practice, Crowley has assisted in over $7 billion in mergers and acquisitions. His deals have been spread across a variety of industries, many with cross-border components (Japan, Mexico, France, UK, Israel, PRC).

Crowley began his career in San Francisco at the height of the dotcom boom, practicing law with corporate finance groups at Pillsbury Madison & Sutro (now Pillsbury Winthrop) and Morrison & Foerster. After eight years of private practice, Crowley moved into senior management with Evoke Software in 2001, serving as vice president and general counsel. In 2004, Crowley joined the management team at Technicolor Home Entertainment Services in Camarillo, California, a division with revenues of $2 billion annually. In 2006, Crowley established Crowley Corporate Legal Strategy to offer corporate legal services to entrepreneurs looking to start or grow their businesses.

Crowley is the former President of the Los Angeles Venture Association (LAVA) and an adjunct professor at Loyola Law School, teaching venture law. He is the author of Getting in the Game: Guiding Your Startup Through the World of Venture Capital and Angel Investors and Winning the Game: How to Successfully Sell Your Business.

Crowley recently joined the national finance committee for the Democratic National Party as a deputy national chairman.

When not practicing law, Crowley focuses on food insecurity issues and women’s homelessness issues with organizations like LA’s Downtown Women’s Center and the West Valley Food Pantry.