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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
Life Sciences and Healthcare:
- Represented Sanofi in acquisition of Dren Bio’s bispecific antibody-based program in immunology deal worth up to $1.9 billion
- Represented a global pharmaceutical company in its investment and partnership with a Chinese biotech company, with potential aggregate proceeds in excess of $3 billion.
- 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 Landmark Bio and Harvard University in connection with the sale of Landmark Bio to Artis Biosciences
- Represented Ginkgo Bioworks in connection with numerous life sciences and technology investments and acquisitions, including AgBiome, Patch Biosciences, 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 FibroGen, Inc. in connection with its collaboration and option to acquire transaction with Fortis Therapeutics.
- Represented Performance Health, a portfolio company of Gridiron Capital, in connection with its sale to Patterson Medical.
Technology:
- Represented Qorvo in the sale of its United Silicon Carbide subsidiary and the silicon carbide junction field-effect transistor (SiC JFET) technology business to sensing technology firm onsemi.
- Represented Toast Inc. in connection with the acquisition of Delphi Technologies, a restaurant hardware and software business.
- Represented a leading technology and electronics manufacturing company in connection with certain technology-related M&A transactions.
Industrials and other Industries:
- Represented EMCOR Group in connection with the pending $865 million acquisition of Miller Electric Company, a leading electrical contractor serving high growth areas across the southeastern United States.
- 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.
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.