Matthew Parrish

Matthew Parrish is a partner at Robbins Alloy Belinfante Littlefield LLC in Atlanta. He represents closely held and mid-market businesses, principals, and real estate stakeholders in complex disputes that often sit at the intersection of business relationships, real property, and regulation. His practice focuses on (i) business litigation involving ownership, governance, contracts, fiduciary duty, and commercial torts; (ii) zoning, land-use, and real estate disputes; and (iii) representing businesses in regulated industries in administrative proceedings and related litigation, including professional licensing matters, government contract disputes, and bid protests.

Matthew is frequently engaged when the stakes are existential—where a licensing decision determines whether a business can operate, where a development dispute threatens a project’s economics, or where a breakdown in a business relationship puts control of a company or asset at issue. He also represents clients in litigation implicating the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, and has defended businesses in Lanham Act trademark infringement cases.

Matthew chairs the firm’s Technology Committee, which works to keep Robbins Firm at the forefront of changes reshaping the practice of law. In that role, he helps drive the firm’s adoption of modern litigation technology, including the strategic use of advanced eDiscovery tools to streamline review, sharpen case themes, and use electronically stored information to clients’ advantage. The Committee also leads the firm’s efforts to evaluate and deploy AI-enabled workflows that improve efficiency and decision-making while maintaining the professional judgment, confidentiality, and rigor business clients expect.

Representative matters include:

1. Successfully represented a producer of low-THC cannabis oil in a licensing protest involving more than 60 prospective bidders and numerous protest challenges; the client’s production license was upheld on appeal at the administrative, trial court, and appellate levels.
2. Prevailed at trial in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia on behalf of an ESOP advisor seeking a seven-figure commission payment.
3. Defended wholesale grocery and convenience store distributors against trademark infringement claims under the Lanham Act.
4. Represented an Atlanta-based multifamily real estate developer in multiple real estate disputes and lawsuits relating to projects in several states.
5. Advised Georgia-based mining and quarry companies on municipal zoning and state regulatory processes.
6. Litigated for a Georgia-based importer of polyester industrial yarn products in a dispute with a Chinese manufacturer concerning control of a joint venture.

Admissions: Georgia (State and Superior Courts), Court of Appeals of Georgia, Supreme Court of Georgia; U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia; U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

Education: J.D., Columbia Law School; postgraduate diploma, University of Glasgow; B.A., magna cum laude, Birmingham-Southern College.