Awards & Recognitions

Matthew has received numerous recognitions for his work, including his recognition as Band 1 in Capital Markets (High Yield Products) by Chambers UK 2024, as a market leader for Capital Markets: Debt by IFLR1000 UK, and as a leading individual in High Yield by The Legal 500 UK. He was also recognized by The Lawyer “Hot 100” in 2024 and 2017 and by Legal Week in its 2020 list of rising stars in private equity. He has had numerous matters recognized by the IFLR European Awards over the years, including for “Deal of the Year: High Yield” (2023, 2019 and 2016). Matthew is a frequent speaker and writer on legal issues in the industry, and has served as an Editorial Advisory Board Member for The Lexis Practice Advisor Journal.

EXPERIENCE

Matthew advises a wide range of private equity firms and their portfolio companies, including Advent, Altor, Apollo Global Management, Bain Capital, BC Partners, Blackstone, KPS Capital Partners, Investindustrial, Madison Dearborn Partners, TDR Capital and L Catterton, among many others.

Matthew’s recent representative matters have included:

• Saur, a portfolio company of EQT, PGGM and CVC-DIF, in its inaugural €550 million blue senior notes offering
• Global Auto Holdings Limited (GAHL) in its DKK 7.9 billion ($1.17 billion) acquisition of K.W. Bruun’s import and digital businesses
• TDR Capital and its portfolio companies in various transactions including:
• • Bubbles Bidco in its offering of €400 million senior secured fixed rate and €450 million senior secured floating rate notes
  • in their acquisition of Acqua & Sapone from H.I.G. Capital and the founding Barbarossa family
• KPS Capital Partners:
  • and its portfolio company Dynamo NewCo II, a shareholder of Innomotics, in its
    offering of €600 million senior secured notes
  • in its €3.5 billion acquisition of Innomotics from Siemens
  • and its portfolio company Eviosys in the €3.615 billion sale of Eviosys to Sonoco Products Company
• Transcom Holding AB, a portfolio company of Altor Equity Partners, in the issuance of €65 million of senior secured floating rate notes to certain institutional investors
• Investindustrial:
  • and its portfolio company Sammontana Italia in its offering of €800 million senior secured floating rate notes
  • and its portfolio company CEME S.p.A. in connection with the issuance of €360 million of senior secured floating-rate high-yield notes, and its entry into a new €67.5 million revolving credit facility
  • and its portfolio company Guala Closures S.p.A. in connection with an issuance of €150 million of additional senior secured floating-rate notes and the upsize of its existing revolving credit facility
  • and its portfolio company La Doria S.p.A. in its issuance of €525 million of senior secured floating rate notes and entry into an €85 million revolving credit facility
  • in the financing aspects of its acquisition, alongside The Bagnoli Family, of Forno d'Asolo, from BC Partners
  • and its portfolio company Guala Closures S.p.A. on an offering of €350 million of high-yield bonds
• Bain Capital Private Equity and its portfolio companies in various transactions including:
  • House of HR, a portfolio company of Bain Capital, in connection with a €150 million Term Loan B (TLB) add-on to its existing €1.02 billion TLB
  • Fedrigoni, a portfolio company of Bain Capital and BC Partners, in connection with the issuance of €430 million of senior secured notes and €300 million of senior holdco pay-if-you-can toggle notes
  • Fedrigoni, a portfolio company of Bain Capital and BC Partners, in its offering of €665 million of high-yield bonds
  • in the financing for the acquisition of a majority stake in House of HR
  • as part of a consortium, in the financing for their investment in Italian Serie A club Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio S.p.A.
  • STADA Arzneimittel, a portfolio company of Bain Capital and Cinven, in its successful offer to exchange €1.4 billion in aggregate principal amount of its outstanding 3.5% Senior Secured Notes
  • Engineering Ingegneria Informatica and its shareholders Bain Capital and NB Renaissance Partners on the issuance and private placement of €100 million of additional senior secured to certain institutional investors
  • Engineering Ingegneria Informatica and its shareholders Bain Capital and NB Renaissance Partners in connection with the financing aspects of the acquisition of a majority stake in Be Shaping the Future, including an offering of €385 million of high-yield bonds
• Merlin Entertainments, a portfolio company of Blackstone, KIRKBI and CPP Investments, in its €700 million offering of high-yield bonds
• Madison Dearborn Partners and its portfolio companies in various transactions including:
  • The Ardonagh Group, a portfolio company of Madison Dearborn Partners and HPS, in the offering of $2.3 billion of high yield bonds
  • in a €500 million high-yield bond offering in connection with the financing of the acquisition of MoneyGram International
  • Navacord, controlled by Madison Dearborn Partners, in connection with an offering of $500 million of high-yield bonds and in connection with an add-on offering of $100 million of high-yield bonds
• United Group, which is majority-owned by BC Partners, in connection with the:
  • issuance of €750 million senior secured notes
  • issuance of more than €1.4 billion of senior secured fixed and floating rate notes; €300 million of senior holdco pay-if-you-can PIK, or payment-in-kind, notes; and the upsize and maturity extension of United’s existing revolving credit facility
  • financing for its acquisition of Wind Hellas, including an offering of €980 million fixed and floating rate high-yield bonds

Matthew is a member of the Harvard Law School Leadership Council.