Matthew Roazen, startup and business attorney at Roazen Legal

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Attorney Matthew Roazen

Matthew Roazen’s practice focuses primarily on corporate law and business transactions (M&A). Attorney Roazen is experienced in advising founders, executives, and investors at every stage of the business life cycle, from the garage to the trading floor. With more than 30 years in practice across several metropolitan cities around the world, Matthew brings a practical and creative approach to each client’s legal needs. He guides businesses through formation, financing, growth, and exit.

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Education

  • J.D., cum laude, James E. Beasley School of Law at Temple University, 1993
    • Associate Editor, Temple Law Review
    • Judicial Clerkship (Clinical) in Federal District Court in New Jersey
  • M.A., Bryn Mawr College, Russian
  • B.A., Haverford College, Russian

Bar Admissions

  • Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
  • Not admitted to practice in North Carolina.

Court Admissions

  • Tribal Courts of the Seminole Tribe of Florida

Teaching

Graduate legal courses:

  • Pericls Law Center, Moscow, Russia — Mergers & Acquisitions and Contract Drafting
  • Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida — Legal Issues in the Creative Industries

About Matthew Roazen

Matthew Roazen’s practice focuses on corporate and transactional law for growing businesses.

For the past decade, Attorney Roazen has provided advice and direct legal representation to founders, , families, executives, and investors at every stage of the business life cycle. His experience spans biotechnology and health science, consumer goods, technology, media, and telecommunications, traditional and digital finance, and international commercial transactions.

Over his career, Matthew has served as a corporate partner in a foreign office of one of the largest US-based global law firms and as general counsel of a nine-figure emerging market private equity technology fund. He has worked on hundreds of mergers and acquisitions transactions, drawing on his experience as a private equity fund general counsel and as a corporate partner in an AmLaw 100 firm.

His earlier career included attorney roles at leading multinational firms, including Salans (now part of Dentons) and LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, where he managed M&A transactions in the telecommunications and power industries.

Matthew is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and the Tribal Courts of the Seminole Tribe of Florida.

Matthew is not admitted to practice in North Carolina. In representation of North Carolina businesses, he is supervised by attorneys who are admitted to practice in North Carolina.

  • Outside General Counsel (Corporate and Board)
  • Mergers and acquisitions, including equity and asset sales
  • Entity structuring and corporate governance
  • Raising capital and corporate finance
  • Recapitalizations and reorganizations
  • Founder, executive, and employee compensation and stock grants
  • Tokenization and digitization of financial transactions and assets

J.D., cum laude, James E. Beasley School of Law at Temple University, 1993

  •  Associate Editor, Temple Law Review
  • Judicial Clerkship (Clinical) in Federal District Court in New Jersey

M.A., Bryn Mawr College, Russian
B.A., Haverford College, Russian

Matthew has taught legal courses in settings as varied as a graduate law school in Moscow and an art and design college in Florida.

Matthew is married with four adult children and two adolescent poodle mixes. When not at his desk, he is probably in his garage working on one of his second-hand telescopes as he masters the basics of astrophotography.

Full Profile

“You can take the lawyer out of Philadelphia, but you can’t take Philadelphia out of the lawyer.” Since 1993, when he graduated cum laude from the Beasley School of Law at Temple University in Philadelphia, Matthew Roazen has practiced in various legal counsel roles and several major cities around the world.

Whether as a corporate partner in a foreign office of one of the largest US-based global law firms, as one of the first American lawyers to practice in the American office of a Russian law firm, or as the general counsel of a nine-figure emerging market private equity technology fund, Matthew has built a wealth of experience over decades that allows him to take a holistic and practical approach to any client’s legal needs. He knows that each legal situation is unique and deserving of careful attention, and he enjoys the variety and diversity that each new matter brings.

For the past decade, Matthew has provided direct legal support to founders, executives, and investors at every stage of the business life cycle, from the garage to the trading floor, primarily in technology, media, and telecommunications, but also in traditional and digital finance, biotechnology and health sciences, consumer goods, and international commercial transactions.

In law school, Matthew was an Associate Editor of the Temple Law Review and served a one-year judicial clerkship clinical with a federal district judge in New Jersey. Matthew is licensed to practice in the courts of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and in the tribal courts of the Seminole Tribe of Florida.

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Petrova Law is a boutique business law firm focused exclusively on tax and business law matters. The firm assists businesses with tax strategy, IRS representation, sales and purchases of businesses (M&A), and general corporate law from startup launch through growth and maturation to exit and succession.