People
Matthew Brown
Biography
Matt focuses on a range of areas of tax law, with a particular focus on cross-border tax issues and the tax aspects of corporate and partnership transactions.
Matt’s practice includes U.S. domestic and international tax planning and transactional work, including issues relating to mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity and hedge fund investments, controlled foreign corporations and passive foreign investment companies, and Pillar Two, as well as the taxation of financial instruments and various financing transactions. He also advises multinational corporations with respect to corporate, partnership and international tax matters and strategic restructurings. Matt represents corporate, financial institution, private equity and sovereign wealth fund clients.
Practice areas
- Tax
- M and A JVs and corporate reorganizations
- Private equity
- Corporate and M&A
Sectors
- Financial institutions
- Communications media and entertainment
- Defense
- Private capital
- Consumer and retail
- Sovereign wealth and institutional investors
- Private equity
- Chemicals
Selected experience
- Genmab A/S in its acquisition of Merus N.V., a clinical-stage biotechnology company.
- Circet USA, a subsidiary of Circet Holdings SAS, in various acquisitions.
- Celanese Corporation in the food ingredients joint venture with Mitsui & Co.
- Mubadala in the acquisition, together with Fortress management, of Fortress Investment Group from Softbank Group Corp.
- Celanese Corporation in the restructuring of its 50/50 Korea Engineering Plastics Co. joint venture with Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc. and various internal restructuring transactions.
- Glatfelter Corporation in its $308 million acquisition of the Jacob Holm Group.
- Paramount Global in various transactions, including its $1.62 billion sale of Simon & Schuster to KKR.
- Société Générale on its joint venture with AllianceBernstein.
- Anglo American plc in connection with the business combination between its nuGenTM Zero Emissions Haulage Solution and First Mode Holdings, Inc.
- The Energy and Minerals Group (EMG) and Vision Blue Resources in their investment in Serra Verde, a Denham Capital portfolio company, that is developing an integrated rare earth element mining and processing operation in Brazil.
Education
- Ave Maria School of Law J.D., magna cum laude , 2012
- Editor-in-Chief, Ave Maria Law Review, 2012
- New York University School of Law LL.M., 2013
- University of Florida B.S., cum laude , 2009
Admissions
- Attorney-at-Law, D.C., 2022
- Attorney-at-Law, Florida, 2012
- United States Tax Court, 2013