Matthew trained at Baker & McKenzie LLP and qualified in 2005, where he continued to work as a Senior Associate in the Banking and Finance team until joining Stevens & Bolton in August 2016.
During the initial years of his career, Matthew worked on a broad range of finance transactions, developing extensive experience in the areas of acquisition, project, trade and real estate finance as well as more general bank lending products. He has acted for a wide variety of clients in these areas, ranging from well-established banks to challenger lenders on the lending side and sponsors, companies and funds on the borrowing side.
In more recent years Matthew has developed additional expertise in debt restructuring and insolvency matters. He has particular experience of acting on consensual debt restructurings as well as receivership sales in connection with distressed real estate transactions.