Attorneys

Matt Waterman specializes in venture capital and other private equity and debt financings, mergers and acquisitions, software/technology licensing, and general corporate counseling. Matt has over 20 years of experience advising emerging growth and middle market companies. Prior to joining Auctus, Matt was a partner at Corporate Counsel Group LLP and the managing attorney of General Counsel Partners, Inc., boutique law firms focused exclusively on corporate and technology transactions.  Matt began his business transactions law career at the national law firm of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison where he advised emerging growth companies on corporate law matters, including private and public financings, mergers & acquisitions, securities law compliance and corporate governance. Prior to practicing corporate law, he was a litigation associate at the national law firm of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi.

Matt has also served as the General Counsel of a number of emerging growth companies in Southern California, including Alteer Corporation (an electronic health records software company), Octave Software, Inc. (a content management software company), ThinkTank Holdings LLC (a technology incubator and venture capital fund), and InTouch Communications, Inc. (a telecommunications company).  He has also held operating roles at some of the above companies, including serving as the Vice President, Corporate Development at ThinkTank and the de facto CFO at InTouch Communications.

Before his career in private practice, Matt served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Ronald S.W. Lew of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.