Matt Schwartz

Matt is the Practice Group Leader/Chair of DLA Piper’s Finance Group which includes a broad range of finance transactions and clients across eight different subspecialties including:

• Leveraged
• Structured
• Venture & Growth
• Sports, Media and Entertainment
• Projects
• Real Estate
• Investment Funds; and
• Restructuring

Matt has spent more than two decades representing banks and private credit funds in structuring and negotiating a wide range of debt, equity and hybrid debt/equity investments.

Matt is a founding member of the Legal Mentor Network, the first non-profit dedicated to mentoring young lawyers and law students, particularly those students from communities who are traditionally underrepresented in the legal industry.

Matt is also a founding board member of the Randy Jones Foundation, a local San Diego charity founded by MLB legend Randy Jones that provides kids from local military families the opportunity to get involved in camps, sporting events, and outdoor activities in addition to providing athletic scholarship for military scholar athletes.

Matt sits on the advisory board of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and is a regular host committee member and fundraising leader for the Best Buddies, an organization dedicated to establishing a global volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment and leadership development for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.