A partner in the Capital Markets Group, Matt advises private equity funds in connection with leveraged acquisitions, investments and in financing-related matters for their portfolio companies as well as public and privately held companies and investors in connection with a wide range of capital raising transactions, including initial public offerings, high yield debt transactions, liability management transactions and complex private capital and hybrid investments.
Matt is ranked by Chambers UK 2026 in the Capital Markets: High-Yield Products category and recommended for Acquisition Financing and High-Yield Debt by The Legal 500 UK 2026. In 2026 and 2025, Matt was recognized as a “500 X – The Next Generation” lawyer by Lawdragon and Law.com International named Matt to its 2025 “Private Equity Rising Stars” list. Matt has been described as a “go-to HY lawyer in London” who is “solution-oriented” and “confidently tackles the most complex deals” while being “incredibly responsive” by Chambers UK.
Some of Matt’s recent financing experience includes advising:
- Funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management:
- on the financing aspects of their acquisitions of:
- the Interiors Business Group of Forvia, a leading global supplier of automotive interior systems, from Forvia SE in a carve-out transaction
- Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited, a global leader in architectural, automotive and technical glass with an enterprise value of nearly $3.7 billion
- Kelvion, a global developer and manufacturer of energy-efficient heat exchange and cooling solutions including an offering of €750 million of senior secured floating rate bonds
- alongside Evri, on its merger with the DHL UK Group and sale of a significant minority stake in the combined business to the DHL Group
- Evri, a UK-based parcel delivery company, including an offering of £725 million of senior secured notes
- TI Fluid Systems plc, a British-American multinational company which develops, manufactures and supplies automotive fluid storage, carrying and delivery systems, by its majority-owned entity, ABC Technologies
- Purmo, a European provider of sustainable indoor-climate solutions, including an offering of €380 million of senior secured bonds
- Miller Homes, a UK-based housebuilder, including an offering of £425 million of senior secured bonds and €465 million of senior secured floating rate bonds
- Graanul Invest, a European producer of sustainable wood pellets, including an offering of €380 million of senior secured bonds and €250 million of senior secured floating rate bonds
- Reno de Medici, a European producer of recycled cartonboard, including an offering of €445 million of senior secured floating rate bonds
- Primafrio, a European temperature-controlled infrastructure and logistics company
- alongside Evri, on its merger with the DHL UK Group and sale of a significant minority stake in the combined business to the DHL Group
- in obtaining financing commitments from a group of banks to support Apollo's announced voluntary tender offer for 100% of the shares of Spanish industrial testing company Applus Services, S.A.
- Issuers and borrowers in financing transactions, including:
- Graanul Invest, on the consent solicitation to extend the maturity of its existing €630 million of senior secured bonds and its €100 million super senior revolving credit facility
- Reno De Medici in its offering of €600 million of sustainability-linked floating rate senior secured bonds
- Purmo in its offering of €50 million of additional senior secured bonds
- Kem One, a leading European chlorovinyls producer, on the negotiation and execution on a new €200 million financing
- Miller Homes in its offering of €475 million of senior secured floating rate bonds
- OEG Energy Group in its offering of €75 million of additional senior secured bonds
- Lottomatica S.p.A., an Italy-based gaming company, in its €600 million initial public offering and multiple different high yield bond offerings, including its issuance of €500 million of floating-rate senior secured bonds in connection with the financing of its acquisition of SKS365 Malta Holding
- Vallourec SA, a France-based manufacturing company, in its refinancing, consisting of $820 million of senior bonds
- Participants in private credit, hybrid capital and special situations transactions, including:
- the representation of the lenders for the investment by funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management in a 50% stake in Ørsted’s Hornsea 3, the world’s largest offshore wind project
- the investment made by funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management to a subsidiary of Ardagh Group S.A., a global supplier of recyclable metal and glass packaging, consisting of an initial €790 million senior secured term loan and a $250 million senior secured exchange term loan
- the representation of the lenders for the investment by funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management in a non-controlling stake in bp’s interest in the Trans-Anatolian natural gas pipeline
- the representation of the lenders for the investment by funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management in a non-controlling stake in bp’s interest in the Trans Adriatic Pipeline
- the investment by funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management in the financing of the take-private of SYNLAB AG, a Germany-based pharmaceutical group
- the investment by funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management in preferred equity of US Acute Care Solutions, an American physician-owned emergency medicine, hospitalist and observation services
