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
Experience
Representative Matters
• 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 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.
Internships
• 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
