Matthew Brown Bio

Matt Brown is a corporate attorney who practices in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings and capital raising, and corporate governance, primarily for community banks in Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Colorado, and Kansas, but also for clients in other industries such as oil and gas, real estate, and insurance. He currently serves as the leader of the firm’s Banking and Financial Institutions Group. Matt routinely represents public and private bank holding companies and banks in mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings and capital raising, lending transactions, corporate governance, and regulatory compliance. His experience includes negotiating and drafting merger, stock purchase, share acquisition, asset purchase, and branch purchase and assumption agreements; and drafting and reviewing loan agreements, notes, security agreements, guaranty agreements, intercreditor and subordination agreements, and loan modification agreements. Matt also counsels clients in public and private equity and debt (secured, unsecured, senior, and subordinated) offerings, tender offers, private equity and venture capital investments, recapitalizations, and other regulatory and compliance matters. He also counsels broker-dealers, investment companies, and investment advisors in various regulatory and business matters. Matt regularly advises directors, officers, and managers about their fiduciary duties; incorporates, forms, and organizes new business entities; and negotiates and drafts operating agreements, limited partnership agreements¸ bylaws, shareholders agreements, committee charters and codes of ethics. Matt represents franchisors and franchisees as well. He assists franchisors with organizing and structuring franchise, licensing, and other distribution programs; negotiating and preparing complex franchise disclosure documents and franchise agreements; complying with franchise disclosure, registration, and renewal laws; and terminating franchisees. He assists franchisors and franchisees with preventing and resolving franchise disputes and navigating other corporate and business matters. Matt also serves as Oklahoma local counsel to national and regional businesses in connection with the issuance of equity and debt securities, syndicated loans and real estate acquisitions and divestitures. In this role, he provides legal opinions and advises these businesses regarding the proper methods of perfecting security interests in all forms of collateral, including real property, tangible personal property (including inventory, equipment, farm products and aircraft) and intangible personal property (including patents, trademarks, and licenses). Matt’s achievements have earned him inclusion in Best Lawyers (banking and finance law; corporate law; mergers and acquisitions law) and Oklahoma Super Lawyers’ list of “Oklahoma Rising Stars,” which recognizes the state’s top up-and-coming attorneys.