Matthew D. Pace

Matthew Pace represents clients in a broad range of sports and entertainment matters, including property acquisitions and sales, sponsorships, licensing and promotional agreements, joint venture activities, digital rights and other media and general business issues.  He also represents various clients with financings and other corporate legal matters.

His clients include sports and entertainment companies, personalities, leagues and teams, sponsors and properties, technology companies, investors, licensees and licensors, talent and marketing and promotions agencies and institutional lenders and borrowers.

Among Mr. Pace’s noteworthy representations include the representation of:

• GSE Sports and Entertainment in connection with various matters including the sale of its baseball agency and the purchase of its football agency;
• a prominent music label in connection with the purchase of music libraries;
• Boy George and Culture Club in connection with various matters including a worldwide concert tour;
• noted American artist Derrick Adams in connection with his creation and sale of an NFT to commemorate the 25^th Anniversary of Jay-Z’s album Reasonable Doubt;
• BC Partners in connection with various lending transactions;
• Argyle Sports in connection with launching and maintaining the EF Cannondale Women’s Professional Cycling Team;
• Sport 10 IP in connection with the purchase, financing and exploitation of the intellectual property rights of global icon Pele,
• Alliance Baseball, the owners of the Omaha Storm Chasers (AAA Kansas City Royals) and the Richmond Flying Squirrels (AA San Francisco Giants) in connection with the purchase of the Storm Chasers and the purchase and operation of noted publication Baseball America;
• the NY Cosmos Soccer Club in connection with its re-launch and subsequent sale,
• the Ultimate Fighting Championship in connection with various matters including structuring fighter contracts and media deals; and
• Sports Technologies in connection with the sale of FanNation.com to Sports Illustrated.

Mr. Pace has also represented private equity investors in connection with their investments in sports and entertainment properties.

Mr. Pace previously held senior-level business positions, including serving as executive director of Major League Lacrosse, executive vice president of Business Development and General Counsel for GM EventWorks, an Interpublic Group company that was responsible for managing sports and entertainment alliances for General Motors Corp.

Mr. Pace received his J.D. from the Emory University School of Law and his B.A. from Trinity College-Hartford.

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

• United States Recommended Attorney, The Legal 500 (Legalease Ltd), 2015