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Matthew Halliday

Corporate Managing Associate, London

"I advise sponsor and corporate clients on a range of corporate, commercial and corporate finance matters, including public and private M&A, joint ventures, disposals, restructurings and corporate governance across a broad range of sectors."

Overview

Professional experience

Education and qualifications

Overview

Matthew has been involved in public and private mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, co-investments, disposals and corporate restructurings, with a particular focus on the financial institutions sector. He has spent time in the firm’s Tokyo office as well as having been seconded to Cerberus for 18 months as its in-house legal counsel responsible for international transactions and portfolio matters.

Work highlights

Matthew has advised:

  • HSBC on the sale of its business in Canada to RBC for CA$13.5bn
  • a consortium of bank stockholders on the sale of AcadiaSoft, a leading provider of automated uncleared margin processing and integrated risk and optimisation services for the global derivatives community, to the London Stock Exchange Group
  • Nestlé on the carve-out of a food business into a 50/50 joint venture
  • AustralianSuper on the acquisition from British Land of a 50% stake in the Canada Water masterplan for £290m, and the formation of a joint venture to accelerate the delivery of the 53-acre development
  • the founders of Quantile Technologies, a leading provider of portfolio optimisation services for the global financial markets, on their sale of Quantile Technologies to the London Stock Exchange Group.
  • Cerberus on a range of issues and transactions, including:

- its acquisition of GE Money Bank in France

- its acquisition of a portfolio of pubs in England and Wales

- the establishment of joint ventures with various operating partners for the acquisition of hotels, self storage assets, cold storage assets and light industrial or logistics properties

- advising Staples, its portfolio company, on the divestment of its business operations in the UK, Central Europe and the Nordics

  • bp on the disposal of its global petrochemicals business to INEOS for a total consideration of US$5 billion
  • AXA on the sale in three parts of its UK life insurance business

Professional experience

Matthew acts as a co-chair of governors for West Hill Primary School in Wandsworth.

Education and qualifications

Matthew holds an Economics degree from the University of Cambridge. He studied for his Graduate Diploma in Law at the University of Law in London.