Matthew Kittay Bio

Matthew is an innovative lawyer who provides legal guidance to businesses, investors and entrepreneurs to help them achieve the corporate financing and structures that drive their success. National Co-Chair of Fox Rothschild's Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Group, Matthew has deep experience as outside general counsel, structuring mergers and acquisitions and securing private equity and venture capital for a wide range of companies, particularly in the technology, software, cannabis, manufacturing and health care sectors. He is selected to the Band 1 list in the Chambers USA Guide as a leading corporate attorney for his transactional work with clients in the cannabis sector.* In 2019, he was selected to The National Law Journal "Cannabis Law Trailblazers" list in recognition of a string of major deals he closed in this nascent industry. Prior to attending law school, Matthew worked as a research analyst at Harvard Business School and published several corporate case studies. While in law school, he worked for an international trade company in Shanghai, China and also the New York State attorney general. Matthew is a leader in the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section, where he serves as Co-Chair of the Angel Venture Capital Subcommittee and as the M&A Technology Subcommittee's Liaison to the Legal Analytics Committee. He is active in New York's venture capital community as an attorney and angel investor, and has presented for and published with renowned venture capital educational and accelerator programs. Matt’s community services includes two terms (2018-2020; 2020-present) on Brown University’s Communications Advisory Committee to the President and as a volunteer scientific diver for the New York Aquarium, a program focused on environmental conservation and animal care (2019-present).