The Law Offices of Mathew B. Rabin, a Professional Law Corporation
Mathew B. Rabin is the founder of the Law Offices of Mathew B. Rabin, A Professional Law Corporation. Mr. Rabin serves as president and managing director of the practice. Since beginning his legal career in 1994, Mr. Rabin has devoted his practice to transactional negotiations and all related pursuits, including estate planning, corporation, LLC and partnership formation.
Mathew B. Rabin has worked in the Business and Legal Affairs group of MGM Worldwide Television, where he negotiated and drafted domestic and international distribution and licensing agreements, as well as all other contracts related to MGM's international sales and networks groups. He advised senior MGM management regarding all business and legal arrangements entered into by the television division of MGM. Mr. Rabin continues to serve MGM as a media and entertainment legal consultant to their Worldwide Television Distribution division.
Prior to joining MGM, Mr. Rabin served as Director of Business Affairs and Acquisitions for Sony Pictures Television International, where he negotiated and drafted a multitude of agreements, including licensing agreements, production deals, output agreements and talent contracts that arose under Sony's international television networks. He counseled Sony's senior business and legal executives as to all business issues related to his negotiations. As an acquisitions executive, Mr. Rabin attended many feature film and television markets with an eye toward product that would best serve to grow Sony's international networks.
Before joining Sony Pictures, Mathew B. Rabin established his own private practice where he handled a variety of transactional matters, from judicial foreclosures to employment and real estate contract negotiations. His commercial transactions included structuring, negotiating and drafting rights acquisitions for traditional and new media, including video game, Internet and print media rights. He has also provided legal counsel to the textile and apparel industry, handling contract negotiations from garment manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers and affiliated sublicensees.
In handling such transactions, Mr. Rabin learned quickly that providing adequate counsel goes beyond any one transaction. It required knowledge and competence in general business law, corporation, LLC and partnership formation, estate planning, trust creation and management as well as probate and bankruptcy. Mr. Rabin brought all these pursuits under one practice — something than many specialized transactional law firms cannot offer. This all-encompassing business approach is the foundation for the Law Offices of Mathew B. Rabin, PLC.
Mathew B. Rabin attended the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, where he received his BA, cum laude, in Communication. Mr. Rabin received his Juris Doctor from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, California. Mathew B. Rabin is a member of the State Bar of California and the US District Court Bar, Central District of California. Mr. Rabin is also admitted to the Bar of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. He is a member of many bar associations, including the Beverly Hills Bar Association and the Los Angeles County Bar Association.
Mr. Rabin is devoted to finding a cure for Type I Diabetes, also known as Juvenile Diabetes. He volunteers time to the family services group of Children's Hospital Los Angeles and has been a volunteer to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and American Diabetes Association.