Matthew Holman focuses his practice on corporate and corporate finance matters, with a particular emphasis on securities law, corporate transactions and corporate governance. Matthew has represented issuers and underwriters in initial public offerings, secondary offerings, debt offerings, private placements, exchange offers and going private transactions. He has advised public companies with respect to periodic SEC reporting and general securities matters. Matthew has represented parties in all aspects of domestic and international mergers, acquisitions, tender offers and joint ventures. He has also advised companies in corporate reorganizations and restructurings.

Matthew has acted as outside corporate counsel to both publicly traded and privately held companies. In addition, he counsels companies and executives with respect to corporate governance, officer and director duties and general corporate matters.

Matthew was named a 2012 and 2011 BTI Client Service All-Star, a distinction honoring select lawyers in the US who differentiate themselves from all others through excellence in client service. He was also elected to the Spring 2011 Class of the FBI Citizens’ Academy. Matthew was recognized as a Rising Star in the 2012 edition of Southwest Super Lawyers magazine, a distinction that recognizes lawyers under the age of 40 or those in practice for 10 years or less.

Representative Experience

• Representing public companies in periodic SEC reporting and general securities matters.
• Serving as issuer’s counsel in an initial public offering of US$70 million in common stock.
• Representing the seller, a publicly traded healthcare company, in a US$150 million acquisition structured as a two-step tender offer transaction.
• Serving as counsel to a technology and service company in a US$35 million leveraged recapitalization.
• Advising an agricultural produce company in connection with multiple senior credit facilities and issuance of debt obligations in excess of US$235 million.
• Representing the purchaser in the acquisition of US$20 billion of residential and multifamily housing projects in the US from a Chapter 11 debtor.
• Serving as corporate counsel to an agricultural company in Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the restructuring of US$300 million in debt obligations and related reorganization.
• Serving as in-house counsel for a Nasdaq-traded software technology company with primary areas of responsibility including securities and regulatory compliance, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, general transactional matters, real property and software license agreements.
• Representing a software company in a US$300 million acquisition of a publicly traded software company including associated private placement of equity and credit facility.
• Representing a publicly traded airline in a US$252 million convertible debt offering.
• Representing the issuer in a US$60 million private placement.