Matt Hutchinson joined Ropes & Gray’s corporate department in 2024. Prior to joining Ropes & Gray, Matt was a private equity associate in the Chicago office of another leading international law firm.

Matt primarily represents private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies on structuring and negotiating complex business transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and divestitures of public and private companies. Matt’s practice also involves advising on GP-led secondary transactions, corporate restructurings and corporate governance matters.

Experience

  • Represented Celsius Network LLC in its sale of GK8 to Galaxy Digital.*
  • Represented TPG Capital and its portfolio company LLamasoft in its $1.5 billion sale to Coupa Software.*
  • Represented Madison Dearborn Partners and its portfolio company Performance Health on the carve-out sale of its Biofreeze and TheraPearl brands to Reckitt Benckiser Group plc.*
  • Represented Linden Capital Partners in its sale of Z-Medica to Teleflex (NYSE: TFX).*
  • Represented GTCR and its portfolio company Cedar Gate in its acquisitions of Deerwalk and Enli Health Intelligence.*
  • Represented Thoma Bravo in its acquisitions of:*
    • Veriforce
    • Apryse
    • Grayshift
    • ForgeRock

*Prior to joining Ropes & Gray

 

Areas of Practice