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Matt is a Partner in the Banking and Finance team in London. Matt specialises in loan trading and distribution, portfolio sales (both performing and non-performing), balance sheet transactions for financial institutions as well as buy-side participants and loan servicers in the secondary loan market and other types of credit M&A transactions.

Prior to his role at Taylor Wessing, Matt was a corporate banker at a UK bank and was responsible for the design and execution of balance sheet deleveraging activities and regulatory capital solutions, and latterly the commercial lead for loan distribution.

Matt has acted on some of Europe's largest NPE/NPL transactions (buy and sell side) in both a commercial and legal capacity to an aggregate gross book value in excess of £50 billion. These transactions include the strategic withdrawal by a UK bank from Ireland, Portugal and Spain and the first ever Cypriot NPE loan portfolio sale.

Matt has represented many other financial institutions and private credit funds across a wide range of asset class disposals and acquisitions (in both debt and equity), such as shipping, CRE, infrastructure and corporate lending.

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CV

2006 Admitted as a Solicitor, England and Wales
2004 LPC, Nottingham Law School
2003 Graduate Diploma in Law
2002 BSc Political Science, University of Bristol

Education

2006 Admitted as a Solicitor, England and Wales
2004 LPC, Nottingham Law School
2003 Graduate Diploma in Law
2002 BSc Political Science, University of Bristol

Memberships & Associations

Law Society of England and Wales 

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