A seasoned financial services attorney, Matt has extensive experience in sophisticated lending transactions, including subordinated, mezzanine, and more senior financings backed by traditional and non-traditional security packages. He also represents clients in special situations investments and other opportunistic financing scenarios, such as deals involving ad hoc committees and rescue loans. His lending practice includes loan workouts, restructurings, and associated financing opportunities. That experience extends to secondary loan trading of distressed credit exposures, for which he often creates bespoke trading documentation.
Matt has over two decades of experience working in both prestigious law firms and leading buy-side and sell-side financial institutions in London. During that time, he was a member of the special situations group at a European investment bank that had a direct lending and investment mandate complementing its credit trading business. Matt structured and managed each of the direct lending transactions originated for this business, which varied from super senior to subordinated loans. He was also responsible for managing each restructuring situation for the positions held on book, which varied from bespoke restructurings of more direct exposures to situations involving multiple parties and different levels of credit exposures, and often a number of different jurisdictions.
Previously, Matt served as in-house counsel for Citigroup’s European Credit Desks. Based on the trading desk, he advised on the documentation, structure, trading, and other legal aspects of the credit and private equity positions which were traded by the desks, worked with the analyst teams on the documentation and management of the restructuring credits and corresponding new money opportunities, drafted non-standard and first-instance trading documentation, and acted as the desk legal representative for the dispute resolution efforts in contentious situations.
