Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Languages

• French

Lawyer Overview

Matthew W. Abbott is a partner in the Corporate Department and a member of the firm's M&A, Private Equity and Canadian Practice Groups.

Mr. Abbott regularly represents clients in both public and private M&A and joint venture transactions, and often represents Canadian clients in cross-border investments and acquisitions. Mr. Abbott also represents private equity firms in a broad range of transactions including public and private investments and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and liquidity transactions.

His recent transactional experience includes the representation of:

• Greenfield Online in its "go- shop" process and eventual sale to Microsoft in a cash tender offer for approximately 500 million;
• Time Warner Cable in its 3.5 billion investment, with Comcast, Google, Intel and Brighthouse, in the 14.5 billion public combination of the Wimax 4G network assets of Sprint and Clearwire Corporation;
• General Atlantic LLC in more than 25 investments and acquisitions in the United States and abroad, including its: (1) 2.1 billion acquisition in two separate transactions of Emdeon (with Hellman & Friedman participating in the second transaction); (2) leveraged acquisition of Network Solutions, a provider of online solutions for small businesses; (3) investment in Getco, an electronic liquidity provider/trading firm; (4) recent investments in Brazil, including a 530 million investment in the Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange and a minority investment in Qualicorp; and (5) execution of a merger agreement to acquire Aeroflex, an NYSE-listed semiconductor company, for 1 billion (agreement terminated by target during "go-shop" process);
• Agrium Inc. in its 2.7 billion cross-border acquisition via tender offer of UAP Holding Corp., a U.S. agricultural company listed on Nasdaq;
• Western Oil Sands Inc. in its 6.6 billion cross-border sale via plan of arrangement to Marathon Oil Corporation;
• The special committee of CCS Income Trust in a 3.5 billion "going private" transaction; and
• Wyndham International, Inc., a publicly traded hotel and luxury resort company controlled by Apollo and T.H. Lee, in its 3.2 billion sale to Blackstone.

Mr. Abbott's additional transactional experience includes the representation of Citigroup in its acquisitions of First American Bank, a 3.5 billion financial institution, and Ecount, an electronic money-transmitter; Time Warner in its 58 billion bid for AT&T Broadband and its 9.8 billion restructuring of Time Warner Entertainment; YankeeNets LLC in the sale of the New Jersey Nets and the New Jersey Devils and in the restructuring of the New York Yankees and the YES Entertainment Network; Oak Hill and GA in their acquisition of Genpact (the India-based BPO division of General Electric); and MacAndrews & Forbes in its 800 million leveraged acquisition of Clarke American, a division of Honeywell International.

Mr. Abbott has been recognized as one of Investment Dealers' Digest Magazine's "40 Under 40," a list compiled of some of the "best and brightest on Wall Street who are making their mark relatively early in their careers."

Areas of Practice

• Corporate

West Practice Categories

Business Organizations

Bar Admissions

• New York

Honors and Awards

• Matthew Abbott Selected to IDD Magazine's List of "40 Under 40"

Education

• University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1998
  LL.B.
• Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 1995
  B.A.
  Honors: With First Class Honours

Published Works

• A Year After the Credit Crunch – Selected U.S. Merger Statistics, September 5, 2008

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