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Matt Whited advises private equity sponsors and public and private companies on significant corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, GP-led secondaries, and other corporate and transactional matters.

Matt has deep mergers and acquisitions experience, having handled multiple large-scale transactions in diversified industries, on both the buyer and seller-side. He also has significant experience representing private equity sponsors in GP-led secondaries and continuation fund transactions.

Prior to joining the firm, Matt was a partner in the M&A and Private Equity practices of Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago.

Concentrations

  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Private equity
  • Continuation funds; GP-led secondaries
  • General corporate

取扱分野

実績紹介

  • Represented Bain Capital in its $5.3 billion leveraged buyout of consulting firm Guidehouse.°
  • Represented Bain Capital portfolio company American Trailer World in the divestiture of its TexTrail business.°
  • Represented GTCR portfolio company Resonetics in its $200 million acquisition of FISO Technologies, Inc.°
  • Represented GTCR portfolio company Antylia Scientific in the $2.9 billion divestiture of its Masterflex bioprocessing business.°
  • Represented Thomas H. Lee Partners in its $450 million leveraged buyout of Odessa Technologies, Inc.°
  • Represented Aterian Investment Partners in its leveraged buyout of Stein Fibers.°
  • Represented ParkerGale in its stock-for-stock sale of CultureIQ to Perceptyx, Inc.°
  • Represented AEA Investors in multiple continuation fund transactions.°
  • Represented Beecken Petty O’Keefe & Company in its $425 million continuation fund formation and acquisition of five health care services companies previously held by BPOC Fund IV.°
  • Represented The Dow Chemical Company in the $630 million divestiture of its marine and terminal business.°
  • Represented The Dow Chemical Company in the $320 million divestiture of its rail transport business.°
  • Represented Sansiri Public Company Limited in its acquisition of a controlling interest in Standard International (the owner of The Standard brand hotels), valuing the company at over $100 million.°
  • Represented Nicholas Residential in its $200 million acquisition of a Texas-based real estate investment trust.°
  • Represented global agribusiness company in multiple acquisitions in the seeds industry.°

°The above representations were handled by Mr. Whited prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.

  • Legal Intern, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of the Assistant General Counsel for International Affairs, 2014
  • Page, U.S. House of Representatives, 2006

学歴・資格・言語

学歴
  • 法務博士, Columbia Law School
    • Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
  • 学士号, cum laude, University of Southern California
弁護士資格
  • 米国 イリノイ州

Related Capabilities

コーポレート M&A プライベート・エクイティ