Overview
Matt is a Partner in Linklaters’ Investment Funds practice and acts for a range of leading sponsors and institutional cornerstone investors.
His experience covers the structuring and management of funds and managed accounts investing in illiquid assets, particularly in private credit, real estate, private equity and infrastructure. He also has experience in private equity style joint ventures, fund finance, asset management M&A and secondary disposal of fund interests.
Matt also has helped pioneer the European private funds market’s focus on private wealth, helping build both the iCapial and S64 businesses in Europe as well as acting for sponsors raising semi liquid side by side funds.
Matt’s investor practice covers a range private funds spectrum including private equity (large cap, buyout, venture and growth), real estate (core, value-add and opportunistic), debt (direct lending, mezzanine and special situations), infrastructure and natural resources.
He is ranked in Chambers and Legal 500, and quoted as clients saying: "He goes the extra mile, is highly responsive, immensely knowledgeable and a pleasure to deal with". Matt is also one of only five Band 1 ranked lawyers in Chambers’ Private Credit Funds category.
Work highlights
Matt has led on a wide range of complex investment fund transactions. These include advising:
- Macquarie Asset Management (Credit): advising on all infrastructure debt funds since the business’s establishment and many of the large SMA arrangements, which include investment grade and sub-investment grade debt, inflation-linked debt, European and US-focused direct lending strategies, as well as the launch of MAM’s European and US direct lending strategies and its first product in fund financing.
- Macquarie Asset Management (Real Assets): advising on the establishment of private wealth products to invest alongside Macquarie’s global and European infrastructure funds targeting institutional capital.
- QIC: advising on the establishment of QIC Infrastructure Debt Fund II, which is seeking to raise total commitments of US$1bn.
- Q-Energy, DB Investment Partners and Morgan Stanley Investment Management: advising on the establishment of a range of private credit funds and accounts.
- Hines: advising on its flagship Asian and European core+ real estate funds.
- Blackrock: advising on its three most recent European and Asian real estate funds and open-ended core Pan-European real estate fund.
- Investor practice: advising a range of international investors including AIMCo, Alecta, AXA, OTPP, PSP Investments, USS and SGRF on their cornerstone investments into a range of private funds.
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