Bio

Matthew Gabbard is a Partner in our Mergers and Acquisitions and Fund Transactions Practices. Matt’s practice focuses primarily on advising alternative asset managers on a variety of complex transactions, including mergers and acquisitions and other business combinations, secondaries transactions (including GP-led restructurings), co-investments, joint ventures and internal economic and governance matters. In addition to his fund transactions work, Matt brings extensive experience representing public company corporate clients, leading private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in a variety of complex domestic and cross-border transactions and corporate governance matters, including mergers and acquisitions, investments, joint ventures, equity financings, spin-offs and other corporate matters. His clients have included asset managers such as KKR, Blackstone, EQT, Baring Private Equity Asia, Macquarie Asset Management, Stonepeak, Bridgepoint, Raven Capital Management, Angelo Gordon, Grosvenor Capital Management and Blackstone Strategic Partners. Matt has also represented corporate clients such as Ingersoll Rand, L3Harris Technologies, Avantor, Hilton Grand Vacations, American Electric Power, Ziff Davis, Microsoft and Sirius XM.