Matt Starley
Matt Starley spent twelve years litigating business and insurance disputes in Nevada and Utah. He has spent the years since building, buying and operating companies — which is a different way to learn what an operating agreement actually does to people.
Background
Business and insurance litigation in Nevada and Utah — the cases where two companies that need each other have to decide whether the relationship survives the disagreement.
Most commercial disputes have both. Winning a motion at the cost of a client's best supplier relationship is not obviously a win, and twelve years of trial practice is mostly useful for telling the two apart early.
Knowing which disputes genuinely go the distance — and which resolve the moment somebody credible explains what the next eighteen months look like — is the part of trial practice that keeps paying after you stop trying cases.
Matt owns and runs operating companies across construction trades, hospitality and consumer products. An operating agreement reads differently once you have had to live inside one.
Now
Matt founded Sutl Capital in 2011. It takes minority stakes in seed and early-stage companies and puts marketing, operations and strategy in alongside the money, rather than only the money.
Seed and early-stage minority positions, held through an operating partnership rather than a board seat and a quarterly call.
Companies across construction trades, hospitality, consumer products and legal education — owned and run, not only advised.
The commercial judgment a decade of litigation produces, applied before a dispute exists rather than after one does.
Contact
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