Bio

Matthew Morton is a partner in Weil’s Regulatory Transactions Group, and is based in the Washington, D.C. office. In this capacity, Matt offers nearly two decades of experience and expertise in a wide range of environmental transactional and restructuring projects involving a variety of business sectors, including heavy industry, chemical manufacturing, commercial real estate, transportation, electronics, waste management, plastics and food processing. He is trusted by clients and corporate colleagues to manage all aspects of the most complex transactional matters, including managing the due diligence process, negotiating contractual provisions to allocate known and contingent environmental risks and liabilities and facilitating environmental insurance coverage, either via traditional pollution legal liability policies or representation and warranty coverage. Matt also counsels clients on matters pertaining to sustainability and ESG factors, which have rapidly become prevailing transactional concerns for corporations, private equity sponsors and other institutional investors and the financial sector. Matt takes a practical, commercially focused approach to his practice and excels at analyzing and distilling the technical facts inherent in environmental transactions so that the client can understand and properly manage them alongside other legal issues. Matt is committed to his practice beyond his day-to-day work and publishes on recent developments in environmental law and sustainability, including serving as a contributing author of Environmental Law in Real Estate and Business Transactions, a seminal three-volume treatise on environmental issues that arise in a transactional context. Matt also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Legal Response International, an award-winning London-based non-profit that provides free legal support to climate-vulnerable developing countries. Matthew is recognized as a leading lawyer for Environment: Mainly Transactional in D.C. by Chambers USA, where clients note he is “an excellent negotiator” and “extremely bright, professional, responsive and great to work with." He is also recognized as a “Rising Star” for Environment: Transactional by Legal 500 US.