Matt Feehily

Matt Feehily is a Partner in the Firm’s Sustainability and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Practice. He represents a broad range of clients, including private equity firms, project sponsors, portfolio companies and corporations, and covers novel and complex legal issues in an emerging area of law and regulation. Matt has extensive experience advising on EU and UK regulatory frameworks for sustainable finance and ESG disclosures at product, firm and company levels, including under the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), EU Taxonomy Regulation, the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), and UK Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) reporting regimes. Matt works alongside Simpson Thacher’s market leading Investment Funds Practice and Financial Services and Funds Regulatory teams. He has offered counsel to Simpson Thacher’s transactional teams and clients on ESG-related matters from a strategy and implementation perspective.

Matt also regularly contributes to the work of trade associations and industry forums in relation to ESG topics.

Matt’s experience at Simpson Thacher includes advising:

• EQT on ESG regulatory and commercial matters relating to the establishment of EQT X, a €22 billion buy-out fund
• EQT in the formation and launch of "EQT Nexus", EQT's first semi-liquid, open-end, retail fund-of-funds, aimed at providing individual investors with the opportunity to access EQT's wide range of strategies that are typically reserved for institutional investors
• CVC and CVC Credit on ESG regulatory and commercial matters relating to the establishment of CVC’s €26 billion long-term private equity fund, CVC IX
• Permira and Permira Credit on ESG regulatory and commercial matters relating to the establishment of Permira’s €16.7 billion long-term private equity fund, Permira VIII, and Permira Credit’s €4.2 billion direct lending fund, Permira Credit Solutions Fund V.
• Blackstone Energy Transition Partners in its agreement to acquire SEVES Group
• Blackstone in its agreement to acquire Civica from Partners Group
  TPG Rise Climate in its acquisition of AmSpec Group
• Delivering sustainability disclosures for asset managers under the EU’s SFDR and working with clients to implement ESG policy changes and portfolio-level sustainability data monitoring

Matt’s experience prior to joining Simpson Thacher includes:

• Advising on the developing U.K. TCFD-aligned disclosure regimes for asset managers, asset owners, and corporate issuers
• Working with clients to develop approaches to stewardship and engagement under the U.K. Stewardship Code (securing signatory status) and the revised EU Shareholder Rights Directive