Bio

Matthew Perkins counsels business owners, senior management, boards of directors, and strategic and financial investors regarding significant business transactions, complex legal issues and related business decisions. His practice emphasizes mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, private equity and debt transactions, mezzanine and senior lending, technology licensing, joint ventures, and other corporate transactions. Mr. Perkins has practical experience handling business transactions in a broad spectrum of industries, including software, cable, satellite and internet protocol television, telecommunications, ecommerce, manufacturing, building materials, data centers, construction, distribution and transportation, energy, semiconductors, wholesale and retail, insurance, restaurants and food services, consumer products, and business and financial services. His transactional experience includes deals ranging in size from $1 million to hundreds of millions of dollars, including mergers, acquisitions and dispositions, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, corporate spin-offs, industry consolidations, early-stage financing, debt financing, and securities offerings. His practice also includes structuring transactions, capital formation, joint ventures, board of director representation, intellectual property licensing and technology transfers, equity and other incentive plans (including senior management compensation) and resolving commercial litigation for business clients. Mr. Perkins has also been named in The Best Lawyers in America© for Corporate Law. He has been practicing law since graduating from Boston University School of Law with honors in 1990. Mr. Perkins is licensed to practice in Florida and Colorado. Prior to joining Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP in 2008, he practiced with Holland & Knight, LLP in Florida (1990–1992), Ballard Spahr in Denver (1992–1996), and was an equity partner at Jacobs Chase in Denver (1996–2008). Prior to law school, Mr. Perkins was a Certified Public Accountant in the audit and tax groups in the Los Angeles office of Deloitte Haskins & Sells (now Deloitte), where he gained a strong background in financial accounting and tax matters. He has acted as an arbitrator for business disputes and serves as an advisor to various boards of directors, entrepreneurs, and investors.