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Matthew M. Holman
Partner
Matthew Holman leads the Corporate Practice in our Phoenix office, where he focuses his practice on corporate and securities matters, with a particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, securities law, corporate governance, commercial contracts and outside general counsel work.
Matthew’s M&A experience includes representing parties in domestic and international mergers, stock and asset acquisitions, tender offers and joint ventures where he has guided clients through every stage of the deal process. He has led companies and private equity firms in complex multijurisdictional acquisition and divestiture transactions across a wide range of industries, including life sciences, technology, manufacturing, software, retail and industrial products. He excels at complex, cross-border transactions, navigating inbound and outbound deals for global clients.
In addition, Matthew has represented issuers and underwriters in a wide range of capital markets transactions including initial public offerings, secondary offerings, debt offerings, private placements, exchange offers and private transactions. His counsel is sought after by public companies navigating periodic Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) reporting and general securities matters.
Matthew has acted as outside corporate counsel to both publicly-traded and privately-held companies delivering strategic guidance that aligns legal frameworks with business goals. He also routinely counsels companies and boards with respect to corporate governance and officer and director duties.
His leadership, insight and commitment to excellence is appreciated by his clients. Ranked among top tier practitioners by Chambers USA, clients have shared that “he is exceptionally responsive, demonstrates a deep technical knowledge and consistently delivers practical, business-focused advice,” as well as “he is a fantastic corporate lawyer: amazing attention to detail and stellar in his ability to move complex matters forward expediently.”
- Advising Flex-Tec Group in its US$41.25 million acquisition of The Duc-Pac Corporation.
- Representing LRQA Inc. in its acquisition of Core Business Solutions LLC and CertFast LLC, both US-based technology companies that provide solutions for regulatory compliance.
- Advising Crest Insurance Group, LLC in its acquisition of Horizon Insurance Services, a Nevada limited liability company.
- Representing Crexendo in its shelf offering of up to US$75 million in common stock.
- Advising Smiths Interconnect Americas, Inc. in its acquisition of Plastronics Sockets & Connectors.
- Advising Cavco Industries, Inc. in its rebranding reorganization which included mergers, asset transfers and share transfers among its subsidiaries.
- Representing a publicly-traded telecommunications company in a US$50 million acquisition of a California private company.
- Representing a publicly traded environmental company in a US$175 million divestment of a stand-alone business line.
- Serving as issuer’s counsel in an initial public offering of US$70 million in common stock.
- Representing the seller, a publicly-traded healthcare company, in a US$150 million acquisition structured as a two-step tender offer transaction.
- Serving as counsel to a technology and service company in a US$35 million leveraged recapitalization.
- Serving as issuer’s counsel in a registered public offering of US$25 million in common stock.
- Representing a publicly-traded environmental services company in its US$75 million acquisition of a private company through a private auction process.
- Advising an agricultural produce company in connection with multiple senior credit facilities and issuance of debt obligations in excess of US$235 million.
- Representing the purchaser in the acquisition of US$20 billion of residential and multifamily housing projects in the US from a Chapter 11 debtor.
- Representing a court-appointed receiver in a complex, multistate receivership with secured debt and judgement obligations in excess of US$75 million.
- Representing a software company in a US$300 million acquisition of a publicly traded software company including associated private placement of equity and credit facility.
- Representing the issuer in a US$60 million private placement.
Education
- Arizona State University, J.D., magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, member, Arizona State Law Journal, 2001
- Arizona State University, B.S., summa cum laude, 1997
Admissions
- Arizona, 2001
- Recognized by The Best Lawyers in America in Corporate Law.
- Recognized by Chambers USA as Band 2 in Corporate/M&A
- Winner of the “Turnaround Atlas Award” and “Restructuring of the Year Award” at the 2018 Global M&A Network’s Turnaround Atlas Awards
- Recommended in Chambers USA for Corporate/M&A in Arizona every year since 2014
- Selected by peers as a rising star, the top 2.5% of lawyers age 40 or less, or in practice 10 years or less, and listed in the 2012-2014 Southwest Super Lawyers – Rising Stars
- Recognized by Legal 500 as a recommended M&A lawyer
- Named as one of only 26 lawyers nationwide as a BTI Client Service All-Star MVP
- Named a 2012 and 2011 BTI Client Service All-Star, a distinction honoring select lawyers in the US who differentiate themselves from all others through excellence in client service