Matt is recognised as a leading corporate finance and climate change lawyer.

Matt is a partner in the Corporate Group based in London. He specialises in public and private merges and acquisitions (M&A), private equity, joint ventures and equity capital markets work, particularly in relation to AIM (the London Stock Exchange international market for smaller growing companies) and the main market of the London Stock Exchange.

He has particular expertise in the Energy Sector (both traditional oil and gas, electricity and mining, as well as renewable energy and cleantech) throughout the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the US. He has advised governments, trading exchanges, financial institutions, venture capital and private equity houses, early stage cleantech companies and major corporations on transactions in the oil and gas, and electricity sectors and in the wind, solar, wave, biomass, biofuels, waste to energy, energy efficiency and carbon sectors.

Matt has been recognised as a leading individual in Chambers legal directory for the last four years in the fields of both climate change law and corporate finance (mid-market) and together with another of our partners, Michael Rudd, he has recently co-edited a book entitled Renewables: A Practical Handbook (Globe Law and Business, 2010). He has spoken at the Renewable Energy Finance Forum (REFF) event in London for the past three years.  He is also a member of the legal committee of the Quoted Companies Alliance, an organisation which represents small and mid-cap quoted companies in the UK and Europe.