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Matt Byron focuses his strategic M&A practice on representing public and private companies as well as private equity sponsors in a broad range of industries, including life sciences, technology, consumer brands, infrastructure and financial services. Matt has led recent transactions for Johnson & Johnson, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Toast, Ginkgo Bioworks, EMCOR, Heidelberg Materials, Planet Fitness, and TSG Consumer Partners.
Experience
Notable experience in strategic M&A:
- Represented Regeneron in acquisition of 2seventy Bio platforms to create new R&D unit Regeneron Cell Medicines.
- Represented Vertex Pharmaceuticals in connection with the acquisition of a novel GPCR-targeted program from Septerna.
- Represented Johnson & Johnson’s pharmaceuticals business, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, in connection with numerous domestic and cross-border acquisitions, divestitures and investments.
- Represented Johnson & Johnson’s medical device and medtech businesses, Ethicon, DePuy Synthes and J&J MedTech, in connection with numerous domestic and cross-border acquisitions, divestitures and investments.
- Represented Toast Inc. in connection with the acquisition of Delphi Technologies, a restaurant hardware and software business.
- Represented Ginkgo Bioworks in connection with numerous life sciences and technology investments and acquisitions, including FGen, Altar, Circularis, Metabiota, Bitome, Proof Diagnostics and the public company acquisition of Zymergen.
- Represented Ginkgo Bioworks in connection with a carve-out transaction and collaboration with Bayer AG in the crop sciences industry.
- Represented a leading technology and electronics manufacturing company in connection with certain technology-related M&A transactions.
- Represented FibroGen, Inc. in connection with its collaboration and option to acquire transaction with Fortis Therapeutics.
- Represented EMCOR Group in connection with various infrastructure, HVAC and electrical contracting acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures, including B&K Industries, Quebe, ECM Corp, Repcon Strickland and numerous others.
- Represented Heidelberg Materials in connection with the acquisition of The SEFA Group, Inc., the largest recycler of fly ash sold for use in concrete products in the United States
- Represented BEF Investments in connection with its sale of T.W. International, a leading supplier and distributer of fasteners throughout the U.S. and Canada, to Earnest Machine Products Company.
- Represented Samsonite in connection with acquisitions and divestitures of consumer branded businesses, including eBags, Inc. and Speck Products.
- Represented Planet Fitness in connection with its sale to TSG Consumer Partners and its eventual IPO.
- Represented Performance Health, a portfolio company of Gridiron Capital, in connection with its sale to Patterson Medical.
Notable experience in private equity transactions:
- Represented TSG Consumer Partners in connection with numerous consumer brand investments, acquisitions and divestitures, including Prive Reveaux, REVOLVE, Paige Denim, thinkThin, Raybern Foods and Kenra Hair.
- Represented TPG Capital in connection with large cap investments and restructuring transactions.
- Represented KarpReilly, Gridiron Capital, HIG Capital and other mid-market private equity firms and their portfolio companies in connection with transactions across all industries.