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.

Mr. Abbott’s recent public company representations include:

• Emdeon in its $3 billion dollar sale to Blackstone
• Network Solutions in its sale to public company Web.com
• Western Coal in its $3.3 billion stock and cash acquisition by Walter Energy, which was recognized in The American Lawyer’s “Canadian Big Deals”
• Maple Group Acquisition Corporation, a consortium of 13 leading Canadian financial institutions, pension funds and capital markets participants in a Cdn$3.8 billion unsolicited cash offer for up to 70 percent of the shares of TMX Group
• Agrium in its:
  • $5 billion hostile bid for CF Industries
  • $2.7 billion acquisition of UAP
  • $1.2 billion acquisition of AWB
• Time Warner Cable in its:
  • $3.5 billion investment (along with Comcast, Google, Intel and Brighthouse) in the $14.5 billion public combination of the 4G wireless assets of Sprint and Clearwire
  • $58 billion bid for AT&T Broadband
  • $9.8 billion restructuring of Time Warner Entertainment
  • acquisition of 100% of ISP Road Runner from AT&T
• Teck Resources in its $1.5 billion private placement to China Investment Corporation (CIC)
• Greenfield Online in its “go-shop” process and $500 million sale to Microsoft
• Citigroup in its acquisitions of First American Bank, a $3.5 billion financial institution, and payment processing company Ecount
• Eldorado Gold in its $2 billion acquisition of Sino Gold, which was recognized in The American Lawyer’s “Canadian Big Deals”
• TriNet in its acquisition of public company Gevity
• The Special Committee of CCS Income Trust in its $3.5 billion “going private” transaction
• Western Oil Sands Inc. in its $6.6 billion sale to Marathon Oil
• Wyndham International, Inc., a public company controlled by Apollo and T.H. Lee, in its $3.2 billion sale to Blackstone

Mr. Abbott’s recent private equity and private company representations include:

• TPG, Oaktree and JH Investments in the $1.2 billion acquisition of Taylor Wimpey’s North American real estate operations, including Monarch and Taylor Morrison
• KKR and GA in the $1.65 billion acquisition of TASC from Northrop Grumman
• General Atlantic LLC in more than 30 investments and acquisitions in the United States and abroad, including its:
  • minority investment in Facebook
  • $2.1 billion acquisition of Emdeon, a health care claims processing company, from WebMD
  • sale of portfolio company Qualicorp, a Brazilian healthcare company, to The Carlyle Group
  • minority investments in internet and e-commerce companies Peixe Urbano, Gilt and Alibaba, and financial services company Markit
  • investment in Quality Technology Services, a data center company
  • investments in the NYSE, NYMEX and the Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange
  • execution of a merger agreement (with Francisco Partners) to acquire Aeroflex, an NYSE-listed semiconductor company, for $1 billion
  • acquisition of First Republic Bank from B of A/Merrill Lynch
  • investment in Canadian engineering company Trow
  • $3.8 billion acquisition of ING Group's Latin American pension and wealth management business
• MacAndrews & Forbes in its $800 million acquisition of Clarke American from Honeywell International
• Oak Hill and GA in their acquisition of Genpact from GE
• YankeeNets in the sale of the New Jersey Nets and the New Jersey Devils and in the subsequent restructuring of the New York Yankees and the YES Entertainment Network

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 by Legal 500 for his work with private equity buyouts, and merger and acquisition work on mega-deals.