Bio

Matthew Weill is a corporate attorney concentrating in business and transactional matters for a wide range of clients, including private equity and venture/growth capital funds and their related portfolio companies and investments, with a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and growth equity financings, recapitalizations, joint ventures and other commercial transactions. In the M&A sector, Matt’s clients include private equity funds and their portfolio companies, independent sponsors, family offices, corporate buyers/sellers, founders/entrepreneurs, and other industry participants. Matt has also counseled senior executives in the context of sales and/or rollover transactions, including the negotiation of employment and equity arrangements. Matt also routinely counsels entrepreneurs, startup and growth-stage companies, investment funds and investors in connection with the structuring and formation of early stage business ventures, private placements, capital raising transactions, agreements among founders, and employment and equity arrangements with key personnel, as well as general legal and business advice to clients seeking to grow or expand their businesses. In addition, he frequently represents employers and employees in employment, equity and separation matters. Matt has advised on transactions in numerous industries and sectors, including food, beverage and hospitality, consumer products, software and technology, healthcare and life sciences, financial services, management/business consulting, media, publishing, advertising and marketing, industrial products, entertainment and apparel. Matt has been recognized as a “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers magazine and has written and spoken on numerous M&A and transactional topics.