Bio

Matthew is a corporate partner whose practice focuses on public and private M&A (both cross-border and domestic), joint ventures, international capital raisings, and corporate restructurings. He has in-depth expertise of the financial services sector, and in particular within banking and insurance. Matthew has advised a number of FTSE100 and major multi-national clients on a variety of their business-critical and transformational M&A and capital raising transactions as well as complex intra-group reorganisations and general corporate governance matters. He is also the managing relationship partner for a number of the firm’s key clients across the bank, insurance and pharmaceutical sectors. Matthew also often acts for large investment banks on their advisory and capital markets mandates and has been involved in devising innovative capital raisings structures, including the development of contingent convertible (“CoCo”) bonds. He has been on secondment to a large U.S. investment bank and also spent two years based in the firm’s Tokyo office, where he advised on many Asia-led deals and gained significant insight into business practice in Japan.