Matthew Negrin

Top rated Professional Liability attorney in Los Angeles, California

Negrin LLP
Matthew Negrin
Negrin LLP

Practice Areas: Professional Liability, Real Estate, Business Litigation; view more

Licensed in California since: 2003

Education: Loyola Law School Los Angeles

Languages Spoken: English, Spanish

Selected to Super Lawyers: 2019 - 2025

Negrin LLP

12400 Wilshire Blvd.
Suite 910
Los Angeles, CA 90025 Phone: 310-502-8268 Email: Matthew Negrin Visit website

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As an attorney and certified public accountant, Matthew focuses his legal practice on legal malpractice, as well as business and real estate litigation matters. For corporate clients and high net worth individuals, Matthew serves as a front-line resource for making smart legal and business decisions. Matthew serves as an experienced litigator and trial lawyer. Matthew also serves as outside general counsel for small and medium-size companies. Matthew represents and advises all parties on Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors (ABCs), which is in essence a private bankruptcy.  Matthew is licensed to practice law in California and Florida.

Matthew’s transactional practice includes standard services like negotiating contracts, preparing entity formation documentation (for corporations and limited liability companies), and addressing financing and real estate issues.

Like the scope of his services on the counseling side, Matthew prides himself on being a “cradle to grave” litigator. He has personally completed every aspect of litigation from filing a complaint to litigating the case through trial. He has litigated a substantial number of legal malpractice matters. His experience with malpractice matters runs the gamut, from conflicts of interest, to claims involving civil RICO, in industries as varied as real estate and tax. Through this work, Matthew has developed a deep understanding of the substantive legal malpractice law and the strategies employed in professional liability litigation. He has also litigated many business litigation, real estate litigation, and other related claims. Those matters have included everything from small business litigation actions to multi-million dollar legal malpractice lawsuits. While Matthew most often ends up on the plaintiff side, where he has obtained judgments on behalf of clients in many cases, including a $16 million arbitration award, he has also defended law firms and other entities in litigation matters.

Matthew is experienced in handling litigation and transactional matters for clients. He represents clients before the State Courts of California, California Courts of Appeal, Federal Courts of California, and other jurisdictions. Matthew is also experienced in representing companies and individuals in business litigation, real estate litigation, legal malpractice, entertainment, insurance and corporate matters, such as the purchase and sale of assets, mergers and other acquisitions, capital-raising transactions, formation of business entities, preparation or review of business contracts, and day-to-day counseling on legal business matters. He represented shareholders of a closely held corporation in the sale of all its outstanding stock to a large multi-national company for $27 million. He also researched and implemented a successful tax savings strategy for a business utilizing enterprise zone hiring tax credits. Previously, Matthew represented broker-dealers, such as Ameriprise and ING, before the NASD (now FINRA), SEC, Federal and State Courts of California, and the State Courts of Florida in connection with customer disputes and regulatory actions. Matthew secured a $16 million judgment on behalf of a client at an NASD (now FINRA) arbitration hearing. Matthew also successfully defended the largest independent broker-dealer in Utah before the Securities and Exchange Commission during the investigation and litigation phases of the dispute, including on-the-record testimony, over alleged improper B-share purchases. Prior to practicing law, Matthew was a CPA at Deloitte & Touche. In the Audit Department, he planned audit engagements, drafted financial statements, managed staff, prepared the budget, reviewed internal controls, and maintained client relations for clients such as Trust Company of the West, E*Trade, and the Daytime Emmy Awards. He also was one of four individuals in the United States for Deloitte & Touche who was actively involved with the Euro Group which is based in Paris. He consulted clients on the effects of the Euro currency, Euro market, and European Monetary Union (EMU) on their businesses. In the Fraud and Forensic Accounting Department, he provided expertise to attorneys and corporations involving business-related issues, forensic accounting, financial fraud, corporate investigations, damage theories and computations, and due diligence. Matthew is a member of the State Bars of California and Florida, and the Southern California Chapter of the American Academy of Attorney-CPAs. He is also a Certified Fraud Examiner. Matthew graduated from the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University and from Loyola Law School, where he served as Technical Editor of the Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review. Matthew can be reached by e-mail at [email protected]

 

Practice areas

Professional Liability: Plaintiff, Real Estate: Business, Business Litigation, Business/Corporate

First Admitted: 2003, California

Professional Webpage: https://www.negrinllp.com/team.aspx

Bar/Professional Activity:
  • American Academy of Attorney-CPAs Beverly Hills Bar Association
  • I lectured at the American Academy of Attorney-CPAs National Conference on the differences between California law and laws of the other 49 states at the National Conference for the American Academy of Attorney-CPAs.  The lecture was titled “Welcome to the Wild Wild West-- California: One of Fifty States, or Its Own Country? Some California Distinctions for Lawyers”. This was both from the perspective of a practicing attorney as well as the perspective of a practicing CPA, to highlight the differences between California and the rest of the country.  , 2023
Special Licenses/Certifications:
  • Certified Public Accountant.  I became certified as a Certified Public Accountant by the California Board of Accountancy in 1999.  , 1999
  • Certified Fraud Examiner.  I am became certified as a Certified Fraud Examiner by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners in 1999.  A Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) is a leader in the anti-fraud community, noted as a specialist in the prevention, detection and deterrence of fraud. CFEs represent the highest standards held by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE).   , 1999
Honors/Awards:
  • I was rated as a top lawyer in Pasadena, California for the last four years., Top Lawyer Pasadena Magazine, Pasadena Magazine, 2022
  • I was rated as a top lawyer in Pasadena, California., Top Lawyer Pasadena Magazine, Pasadena Magazine, 2023
  • Honored to be invited to be a Fellow in the Litigation Counsel of America., Fellowship in Litigation Counsel of America, https://www.litcounsel.org/, 2022
  • Southern California Business Litigator of the Year by the publishers of US Business News, 2020
Scholarly Lectures/Writings:
  • I lectured on a complicated area involving fiduciary duties owed in managing or overseeing a trust or estate, which impacts business law, professional responsibilities, tax, accounting, and other related areas., Speaker at American Academy of Attorney-CPAs National Conference, The Uniform Prudent Investor Act: What do I do with that Kodak Stock?, Business Law, Professional Responsibility, Tax, Accounting, Trust And Estate Law, 2020
  • I lectured on the differences between California law and laws of the other 49 states at the National Conference for the American Academy of Attorney-CPAs.  This was both from the perspective of a practicing attorney as well as the perspective of a practicing CPA, to highlight the differences between California and the rest of the country., Speaker at American Academy of Attorney-CPAs National Conference, Welcome to the Wild Wild West-- California: One of Fifty States, or Its Own Country? Some California Distinctions for Lawyers, Legal Industry, 2023
Other Outstanding Achievements:
  • I was nominated as a Super Lawyer.
Industry Groups:
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Office location for Matthew Negrin

12400 Wilshire Blvd.
Suite 910
Los Angeles, CA 90025

Selections

7 Years Super Lawyers
  • Super Lawyers: 2019 - 2025

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