OVERVIEW
Matt is head of Maples and Calder's Corporate team in the Maples Group's Hong Kong office. He specialises in advising financial institutions, publicly listed and private companies, asset managers and promoters on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, joint ventures, reorganisations, corporate governance and capital markets (including initial public offerings, secondary offerings and preferred share financings). Matt also has significant experience in advising on the establishment, structuring and restructuring of offshore investment funds at all stages of their life cycle.
BACKGROUND
Matt has been in private practice since 2001 and has been practising as an offshore lawyer since 2007. He is recently named as one of "China's Elite 100 lawyers (Foreign firm)" by China Business Law Journal's A-List and also ranked as a "Leading Individual" by Legal 500 Asia Pacific. Based in Hong Kong since 2011, Matt previously worked with the Maples Group in the Cayman Islands for over three years and prior to that, as a corporate lawyer in Australia, with Clayton Utz. He was previously a corporate and funds partner with a leading international firm in Hong Kong. Matt regularly lectures to professional bodies and is also a regular contributor to professional journals and other industry publications.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Member of the Western Australian Law Society
Member of the Hong Kong Law Society
Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Corporate
Funds & Investment Management
BAR ADMISSIONS
2002 - Admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Western Australia (not practising)
2004 - Admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the High Court of Australia (not practising)
2007 - Admitted as an attorney-at-law in the Cayman Islands
EDUCATION
Australian Institute of Company Directors, Sydney, Australia, Company Director Course, 2010
Murdoch University, Perth, Australia, Bachelor of Laws, 2001
Murdoch University, Perth, Australia, Bachelor of Commerce (Finance), 2001
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KNOWLEDGE
- Cayman Islands Update: Economic Substance and CbCR - January 2021 21 January 2021
- Cayman Islands Update: Additional Updates on Economic Substance 23 November 2020
- Chinese Take-Privates: End of a US Affair? 31 July 2020
- British Virgin Islands Economic Substance Requirements July 2020 Update and Deadlines 06 July 2020
- British Virgin Islands Regulatory Obligations and Filing Deadlines 2020 10 June 2020
- Cayman Islands Update COVID-19 Measures and Beneficial Ownership 06 June 2020
- COVID-19 Cayman Islands Update Further Financial Services Deadline Extensions 06 May 2020
- COVID-19 Cayman Islands Update Additional Financial Services Concessions 13 April 2020
- Cayman Islands Financial Services COVID-19 Update 24 March 2020
- New Regulatory Regime for Closed-Ended Funds in the British Virgin Islands 17 March 2020
NEWS & DEALS
- Maples Group Maintains Leading Positions in 2021 Asia Pacific Legal Directories 20 January 2021
- Maples Group Recognised for Excellence in Asia by China Business Law Journal 12 January 2021
- Maples Advises on Baidus US$950 million Bond 29 October 2020
- Maples Advises on US$87B Take Private of 58.com 14 October 2020
- Maples Group Wins Six Awards in Asia 09 October 2020
- Maples Group Supports on Largest Hong Kong Dual Listings of 2020 17 July 2020
- Maples Group Supports JD.com and Netease on the Largest Hong Kong Dual Listings Of 2020 17 July 2020
- Maples Group Announces Leadership Appointments 04 December 2019
- Maples and Calder Hong Kong Recruitments Bolster Capabilities 13 October 2017