Matthew W. Abbott is a partner in the Corporate Department and a member of the firm's Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity and Canadian Practice Groups. He regularly represents strategic and financial buyers in public and private acquisitions and investments, divestitures, joint ventures and carve-out transactions, including Canadian clients in their cross-border U.S. transactions.

His recent transactional experience includes the representation of:

• KKR and General Atlantic LLC in the $1.65 billion acquisition of TASC, Inc. from Northrop Grumman;

• General Atlantic LLC in more than 25 investments and acquisitions in the United States and abroad, including its: (1) $2.1 billion acquisition in two separate transactions of Emdeon (with Hellman & Friedman participating in the second transaction), a health care claims processing company; (2) investment in Quality Tech, a data center company; (3) minority investments in e-commerce companies Gilt and Alibaba and financial services company Markit; (4) investments in Brazil, including a $530 million investment in the Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange and a minority investment in Qualicorp; and (5) execution of a merger agreement to acquire Aeroflex, an NYSE-listed semiconductor company, for $1 billion;

• Agrium Inc. in its $5 billion hostile bid for CF Industries, a U.S. fertilizer company listed on NYSE, and its $2.7 billion cross-border acquisition via tender offer of UAP Holding Corp., a U.S. agricultural company listed on Nasdaq;

• Greenfield Online in its “go- shop” process and eventual sale to Microsoft in a cash tender offer for approximately $500 million;

• Time Warner Cable in its $3.5 billion investment, with Comcast, Google, Intel and Brighthouse, in the $14.5 billion public combination of the Wimax 4G network assets of Sprint and Clearwire Corporation;

• Western Oil Sands Inc. in its $6.6 billion cross-border sale via plan of arrangement to Marathon Oil Corporation;

• The special committee of CCS Income Trust in a $3.5 billion “going private” transaction; and

• Wyndham International, Inc., a publicly traded hotel and luxury resort company controlled by Apollo and T.H. Lee, in its $3.2 billion sale to Blackstone.

Mr. Abbott’s additional transactional experience includes the representation of Citigroup in its acquisitions of First American Bank, a $3.5 billion financial institution, and Ecount, an electronic money-transmitter; Time Warner in its $58 billion bid for AT&T Broadband and its $9.8 billion restructuring of Time Warner Entertainment; YankeeNets LLC in the sale of the New Jersey Nets and the New Jersey Devils and in the restructuring of the New York Yankees and the YES Entertainment Network; Oak Hill and GA in their acquisition of Genpact (the India-based BPO division of General Electric); and MacAndrews & Forbes in its $800 million leveraged acquisition of Clarke American, a division of Honeywell International.

Mr. Abbott has been recognized as one of Investment Dealers' Digest Magazine's “40 Under 40,” a list compiled of some of the "best and brightest on Wall Street who are making their mark relatively early in their careers." He is also recognized for his work with private equity buyouts in Legal 500.