Matthew Maguire

Matt Maguire guides private equity funds to successfully carry out their mergers, acquisitions and other transactions, including rollup strategies, add-on acquisitions, financings, and divestitures. Matt has also been counsel to multinational corporations in their strategic acquisitions – and has experience with growth equity transactions, debt-for-equity swaps, and minority co-investments. He has managed numerous transactions in the middle market and on behalf of large international private equity funds.

Recognized by The Best Lawyers in America “Ones to Watch” in the Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions Law category, clients trust Matt to execute their most challenging corporate transactions. Before private practice, Matt previously served as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney at the U.S. Justice Department, where he litigated matters before federal judges in the District of Columbia as first chair counsel for the United States.

Represented:

• A global private equity fund in a series of technology and media acquisitions with consideration ranging from nine to ten figures.*
• A Charlotte middle-market private equity fund in a series of acquisitions and divestitures, including the sale of a veterinary clinic holding company, which aggregated dozens of clinics nationwide, and the acquisition of Avant Communications, an international telecommunications provider.*
• A London-based fund in becoming the lead investor in one of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency companies; the deal’s closing was covered by CNBC and other national outlets.*
• A Boston-based private equity firm in the acquisition of an insurance holdings company, which aggregated dozens of regional insurance brokerage firms.*
• A Boston-based private equity firm in a complex cross-fund transaction wherein a fund both achieved liquidity and invested again through a newer fund.*
• An international private equity fund headquartered in Boston in a series of growth equity transactions in various technology companies.*
• A Toronto-based private equity fund in the acquisition of a portfolio company that produces a popular consumer household product.*
• A Boston-based private equity firm in a series of recapitalizations and redemptions in the insurance brokerage and consulting space.*
• A multinational European manufacturer in a large asset acquisition involving contingent consideration.* A multinational lighting company in a series of asset acquisitions.*
• An international private equity firm headquartered in Boston in a series of high-nine-figure divestures of technology companies.*
  
  
  
  *Matter completed at a prior firm.

• Catholic University of America, BA, magna cum laude
• Boston College Law School, JD

• Massachusetts
• North Carolina