Squire Patton Boggs

About Matt

Matt Smith is an experienced corporate lawyer who advises on a range of corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, reorganisations and general corporate governance.

Matt’s experience includes advising private companies, private equity houses, management teams, entrepreneurs and owner-managed businesses.

Matt has previously spent time as legal counsel for a global precision engineering company, working alongside the management team. Matt assisted the management team on the company’s first private equity investment.

Experience

  • Acting for Inflexion Private Equity on the £100 million management buyout of PCMS.
  • Acting for North Edge on its £15 million investment in Bridge Farm Nurseries.
  • Acting for the shareholders of care home group Homes Caring for Autism on their £12 million sale to learning disability provider Care Management Group.
  • Acting for management and the existing shareholders of Kallik Limited on their £13 million management buyout, and investment by FPE Capital.
  • Acting for management and the existing shareholders of Prism Medical Healthcare on their £100 million disposal to a Newco backed by Limerston Capital.

Credentials

Education
  • College of Law, L.P.C., 2013
  • University of Birmingham, LL.B. (Hons.), First Class, 2011
Admissions
  • England and Wales, 2016

Expertise

Services
  • Corporate
  • Private Equity

About our firm

One of the world’s strongest integrated law firms, providing insight at the point where law, business and government meet. We deliver commercially focused business solutions by combining our legal, lobbying and political capabilities and invaluable connections on the ground to a diverse mix of clients, from long-established leading corporations to emerging businesses, startup visionaries and sovereign nations. More than 1,500 lawyers in over 40 offices across four continents provide unrivaled access to expertise.