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Serving as co-chair of the firm’s Global Corporate Group and chair of the U.S. Corporate Group, Matt has extensive experience across the full spectrum of corporate transactions. His practice includes leading private equity sponsored and strategic mergers, acquisitions, recapitalizations and divestitures.
Experience
Representative matters
Representative matters
Represented Riverarch Equity Partners with its platform investments in Walex Products Company, Metal Supermarkets and The Perfect Puree of Napa Valley
Represented Prairie Capital with its sale of a majority position in Upshop, its recapitalization of STAR Autism Support, its sale of Right At School, its growth recapitalization of each of Conscious Discipline and Upshop (fka Applied Data Corporation), and represented Upshop with its acquisitions of Itasca Retail and ShopperKit
Represented Merrithew, an ONCAP portfolio company, with its acquisition of the Gyrotonic organization, and Right At School, an ONCAP portfolio company, with its acquisition of Extended Day Services
Private Equity / Mergers & Acquisitions
Represented Riverarch Equity Partners with its platform investments in Walex Products Company, Metal Supermarkets and The Perfect Puree of Napa Valley
Represented Prairie Capital with its sale of a majority position in Upshop, its recapitalization of STAR Autism Support, its sale of Right At School, its growth recapitalization of each of Conscious Discipline and Upshop (fka Applied Data Corporation), and represented Upshop with its acquisitions of Itasca Retail and ShopperKit
Represented Merrithew, an ONCAP portfolio company, with its acquisition of the Gyrotonic organization, and Right At School, an ONCAP portfolio company, with its acquisition of Extended Day Services
Represented Continuim Equity Partners with its platform acquisition of Fluid Sealing International North America and Anchor Seals, its platform acquisition of Cutting Edge Machining Solutions, and its add-on acquisitions of each of Dynamac, Comco Plastics, N.E. Davis Company, Quality Tooling and Repair, and Cobots Systems
Represented Stonewood Capital with multiple transactions, including its sale of Superior Huntingdon Composities to Liberty Lane Partners and St. Cloud Capital, its sale of PCN Network to First American Financial (NYSE:FAF), its sponsorship of a management buyout from Hitachi Metals America of SinterMet, its acquisition from High Street Capital and Bridge Street Capital Partners of Superior Fibers' composites business, its controlling acquisition of PCN Network, and its acquisition from AGY and AGY Huntington of their continuous filament mat business
Represented Simio with its sale to Aegis Software, a portfolio company of Peak Rock Capital
Represented Greer Industries with its sale of Greer Steel to Mutares SE & Co. KGaA (FF:MUX)
Represented Razor Group with its merger with Infinite Commerce
Represented Intelligent Observation with its sale to HID, an ASSA ABLOY Group brand
Represented ABM International with its acquisition of Gribitz International and Porter International from Leggett & Platt (NYSE:LEG)
Represented PFE Corporation with its sale to Cintas Corp (NASDAQ:CTAS)
Represented RoadRunner Recycling with its acquisition of Compology
Represented VSP Vision Care with its acquisition of iCare Health Solutions from Pine Tree Equity Partners, as well as VSP Global with its acquisition of Visionworks from Highmark and Centerbridge Partners
Represented Murka Games, a Blackstone (NYSE:BX) portfolio company, with its acquisition of Mobile Deluxe
Represented PharmBlue with its sale to Kinderhook Industries
Represented Whitford Worldwide with its sale to PPG (NYSE: PPG)
Represented Pursuit Healthcare Advisors with its sale to Atos (Euronext:ATO)
Represented NiSource (NYSE:NI) with its $120 million divestiture of its retail services business to AGL Resources (NYSE:GAS)
Represented Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) with its $1.7 billion acquisition of Phillips Resources and TWP
Growth Equity / Venture Capital
Represented Blackstone (NYSE:BX) with its strategic growth investments in Norm Ai, LendOS, Crash Override, Method Security, Veza, Cove, Groups360, Mitiga Security, Canoe, Alation, ShiftLeft, Dealpath and Lionpoint Group
Represented Eldridge Industries with its lead investment in a $250 million capital raise by Gopuff
Represented Ally Bridge Group with its co-lead Series F investment in Calyxo, co-lead Series B investment in Biobeat, lead Series B investment in Quantum Surgical and lead $53 million Series E investment in Cardiac Dimensions
Represented Pointsville with its Series A financing led by Valor Capital Group
Represented Flexpoint Ford in connection with its $144 million growth equity investment into Duetti Inc.
Represented IKEA with its lead $22.5 million Series B investment in Jifiti
Represented Concord Health Partners with multiple investments, including its lead Series A investments in Mednition and Flexwise Health, as well as investments in Learn to Live, Cylera, Loyal Health, MIVI Neuroscience and VitalTech, and represented Flexwise Health in its sale to Aya Healthcare
Represented Ten Coves Capital with its lead Series C investment in Roostify, its lead Series B investment in Point Predictive and its lead Series C investment in TrueMotion
Represented Anthemis Group with multiple investments, including its lead Series A investment in Apollo Agriculture, Tremor, Arthena, and StratiFi, and its lead Series A and Series Seed investments in Kindur
Represented M12, the corporate venture capital subsidiary of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), with its Series B investment in Beamery and Series B and Series C investments in Unbabel
Represented Ziegler Link-Age Funds with multiple investments, including its lead Series A investment in Socially Determined, its lead Series Seed investment in Embodied Labs, its Series A investment in Arena Analytics, its Series A investment in Third Eye Health, its Series D and Series E investments in AllyAlign Health, its lead Series A investment in Strategic Health Care, its lead Series A investment in Breezie, its investment in Ingenios Health as well as the sale of Ingenios to Almost Family (NASDAQ: AFAM), and its investment in Civic Health as well as the merger of Civic with Strategic Health Care
Recognitions
- Honored in 2023 as a “Dealmaker of the Year” by The Legal Intelligencer.
- Named to the 2021 Pittsburgh Business Times’ 20 People to Know in Law.
Recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® (Corporate Law; Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Securities / Capital Markets Law), 2020–2027
Credentials
Education
Education
- Duquesne University School of Law, 2005, J.D., Executive Articles Editor, Duquesne Business Law Journal; Judicial Extern for Hon. Arthur J. Schwab, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania; Certified Legal Intern for the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, Charitable Trusts and Organizations Section
- Pennsylvania State University, Smeal College of Business, 1999, B.S.
- City University of London, 1998, International Business Studies
Professional admissions & qualifications
Professional admissions & qualifications
- Pennsylvania
Court admissions
Court admissions
- U.S. District Court - Western District of Pennsylvania
Professional affiliations
Professional affiliations
- Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh – Past Trustee (2013-2019); Past Chair, External Relations Committee (2017-2019); Past Member, Executive Committee (2017-2019); Member, 2018-2022 Strategic Planning Committee (2017)
- Duquesne Kline School of Law – Member, Advisory Board (2015-present)
- Fox Chapel Golf Club – Member, Board of Directors (2025-present)
- GH Advertising – Member, Board of Directors (2023-present)
- Links Brewing Co. – Member, Board of Advisors (2019-present)
- Reading is FUNdamental Pittsburgh – Past President, Board of Directors (2010-2012); Past Vice President, Board of Directors (2009-2010); Past Member, Board of Directors (2007-2012)
- Riverside Center for Innovation – Past Member, Board of Directors (2021-2025)
- SDC Nutrition, Inc. – Past Member, Board of Directors (2014-2024)
- Urban Innovation21 – Past Member, Board of Directors (2013-2018); Past Member, Executive Committee as Corporate Secretary (2015-2018)
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