AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS

In 2020, Matt was named a Law360 MVP in Private Equity, an elite slate of attorneys who have distinguished themselves in their respective practice areas. He is also recognized by Chambers USA, Chambers Global and The Legal 500 for his M&A work on Mega-Deals and Private Equity Buyouts. Matt was named to New York Law Journal’s list of “2013 Rising Stars,” which recognizes attorneys under the age of 40 who have “established a record of accomplishments and demonstrated that they are top contributors to the practice of law and their communities.” He has also 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.”

EXPERIENCE

Matt's recent representations include advising:

• Agrium in its $36 billion merger of equals with Potash Corp., its $5 billion hostile bid for CF Industries, its $2.7 billion acquisition of UAP and its $1.2 billion acquisition of AWB
• AKQA, a leading digital advertising company, in its $565 million sale to WPP
• Aperture, the parent company of online broker OptionsHouse, in its $725 million sale to E*TRADE
• Birch Hill Equity Partners in the $2.3 billion sale of Shred-It International to Stericycle Inc., and in its investment in Uni-Select Inc.
• Blackstone Growth in its $200 million investment in Oatly AB
• Brighton Park Capital in its acquisition of a majority stake in RocketReach
• Brookfield in its acquisition of a 50% stake of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice's ownership interest in BrandSafway
• CareCore National in its merger with MedSolutions
• Citigroup in its acquisitions of First American Bank, a $3.5 billion financial institution, and payment processing company Ecount
• CLEAResult in its sale to TPG Growth and The Rise Fund
• Cornell Capital in its acquisition of World Kitchen
• Eldorado Gold in its $2 billion acquisition of Sino Gold
• Emdeon in its $3.1 billion sale to Blackstone
• EN Engineering in its sale to Kohlberg & Co.
• eviCore healthcare in its $3.6 billion sale to Express Scripts
• Farelogix in its proposed sale to Sabre Corporation, and in its sale to Accelya
• Francisco Partners and General Atlantic in their $1 billion agreement to acquire public semiconductor company Aeroflex (terminated during “go-shop” period)
• General Atlantic in more than 100 acquisitions, investments and divestitures involving its portfolio companies across multiple industry and geographical sectors, including: Business Services (Aimbridge, AppsFlyer, Axioma, CLEAResult, Comprehensive Educational Services [ACES], Creative Planning, EN Engineering, Engility, General Information Services, Kavak, Mu Sigma, Network Solutions, Quality Technology Services, TriNet and Trow); Financial Services (Adyen, Amerherst Pierpont, Aperture, Avant Credit, BMF Bovespa, Chime, First Republic Bank, Futu, Getco, IHS Markit, ING’s Latin American Pension and Wealth Management Business, Insurity, Karvy Fintech Private Limited, KCG, Neon Pagamentos, Network International (Dubai), the NYSE, NYMEX, Santander and XP Investimentos); Healthcare (Adagene, Alignment Healthcare, Align Networks, Doctor On Demand, Emdeon, eviCore Healthcare, Hong Kong Asia Medical Holding Limited, Hutchison China MediTech, Landmark Health, Marathon Health, MedExpress, Oak Street Health, OneOncology, Qualicorp, Royalty Pharma and Sanfer); Internet and Technology (Acesso Digital, Airbnb, Alibaba, Alkami Technology, AppDynamics, Authentic Brands Group, Benevity, BuzzFeed, com, Delivery Hero, Dice, Facebook, Flipp, Gympass, Hemnet, Invoice Cloud, Jio Platforms, Klarna, Peixe Urbano, Pendo.io, Property Finder, pymetrics, Quality Technology Services, QuintoAndar, Quizlet, Red Ventures, Riskified, Seismic, Session M, Slack, SnapAV, Snapchat, Sonendo, Squarespace, The Meet Group, Turbonomic, Uber, Vox Media and Yemek Sepeti); and Retail and Consumer (Barteca, European Wax Center, Gilt, Grupo Axo, Jumei International, Mi9 Retail, Morphe, Pague Menos, Privalia, Studio Moderna, Reliance Retail Ventures, Too Faced Cosmetics, Torchy’s Tacos and Tory Burch)
• General Information Services and General Atlantic in GIS’s acquisition of HireRight
• The Government of Canada in the $140 million sale of its interests in Chrysler Group to Fiat SpA
• Greenfield Online in its “go-shop” process and $500 million sale to Microsoft
• KKR and General Atlantic in the $1.65 billion acquisition of TASC from Northrop Grumman
• Maple Group Acquisition Corporation, a consortium of 13 leading Canadian financial institutions and pension funds, in its successful Cdn$3.8 billion unsolicited cash offer for the TMX Group, the owner of the Toronto Stock Exchange
• MacAndrews & Forbes in its $800 million acquisition of Clarke American from Honeywell International
• MedExpress in its sale to Optum, a division of UnitedHealth Group
• Network Solutions in its $1 billion sale to com
• Oak Hill Capital Partners and General Atlantic in their acquisition of Genpact from General Electric and subsequent $1 billion sale of Genpact to Bain Capital
• Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan in its investments in TierPoint, US Farm Trust and Ascend Learning, and its sale of Ascend Learning to funds managed by Blackstone and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
• QTS Realty Trust in its $10 billion sale to Blackstone
• Roark Capital Group in its sales of Batteries Plus and Quala Wash, its investments in Culver Franchising System and Drybar, its acquisitions of Great Expressions Dental Centers, International Car Wash Group and Jimmy John’s and the merger of Pet Valu and Pet Supermarket
• Sandler Capital Management in connection with the $2 billion sale of Xplornet Communications to Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners
• Silver Lake and General Atlantic in their acquisition of A Place for Mom, a portfolio company of Warburg Pincus
• SnapAV in its sale to affiliates of Hellman & Friedman
• SoftBank Vision Fund in its investment, alongside SoftBank Group Corp., of up to $1 billion in Rappi
• Teck Resources in its $1.5 billion private placement to China Investment Corporation (CIC)
• Time Warner Cable in its $58 billion bid for AT&T Broadband, its $9.8 billion restructuring of Time Warner Entertainment, its $3.6 billion sale of SpectrumCo, along with Comcast and Bright House, to Verizon Wireless, its $3.5 billion investment (along with Comcast, Google, Intel and Brighthouse) in Clearwire and its acquisition of 100% of ISP Road Runner from AT&T
• Too Faced Cosmetics in its $1.45 billion sale to The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.
• TPG, Oaktree Capital Management and JH Investments in the $1.2 billion acquisition of Taylor Wimpey’s North American real estate operations
• Tricon Capital in its $1.4 billion acquisition of Silver Bay Realty Trust Corp., a public REIT
• Tricon Residential in a $300 million PIPE investment in the company by a syndicate of investors led by Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust
• Vox Media in connection with a $200 million investment in the company by NBCUniversal
• Warburg Pincus and General Atlantic as lead consortium members in the $8.7 billion take-private of 58.com
• Warburg Pincus and General Atlantic in their €1.02 billion acquisition with of a 50 percent stake in Santander Asset Management
• Western Coal in its $3.3 billion stock and cash acquisition by Walter Energy
• Western Oil Sands in its $6.6 billion sale to Marathon Oil
• Wyndham International in its $3.2 billion sale to Blackstone
• 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