Overview
Matthew has been involved in public and private mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, co-investments, disposals and corporate restructurings, with a particular focus on the financial institutions sector. He has spent time in the firm’s Tokyo office as well as having been seconded to Cerberus for 18 months as its in-house legal counsel responsible for international transactions and portfolio matters.
Work Highlights
Matthew has advised:
- HSBC on the sale of its business in Canada to RBC for CA$13.5bn
- a consortium of bank stockholders on the sale of AcadiaSoft, a leading provider of automated uncleared margin processing and integrated risk and optimisation services for the global derivatives community, to the London Stock Exchange Group
- Nestlé on the carve-out of a food business into a 50/50 joint venture
- AustralianSuper on the acquisition from British Land of a 50% stake in the Canada Water masterplan for £290m, and the formation of a joint venture to accelerate the delivery of the 53-acre development
- the founders of Quantile Technologies, a leading provider of portfolio optimisation services for the global financial markets, on their sale of Quantile Technologies to the London Stock Exchange Group.
- Cerberus on a range of issues and transactions, including:
- its acquisition of GE Money Bank in France
- its acquisition of a portfolio of pubs in England and Wales
- the establishment of joint ventures with various operating partners for the acquisition of hotels, self storage assets, cold storage assets and light industrial or logistics properties
- advising Staples, its portfolio company, on the divestment of its business operations in the UK, Central Europe and the Nordics
- bp on the disposal of its global petrochemicals business to INEOS for a total consideration of US$5 billion
- AXA on the sale in three parts of its UK life insurance business
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