Counsel Matt Hart’s practice concentrates on domestic and international corporate finance matters. He advises clients on equity and debt securities offerings, as well as corporate restructurings, with a particular focus on high yield debt offerings and the energy sector. Matt also regularly represents financial institutions and issuers alike on an array of complex corporate transactions.
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Work Highlights
- Essential Utilities in equity and debt financing transactions raising more than $5 billion
- American Electric Power in connection with its SEC-registered $1 billion at-the-market equity program, and its equity units offerings with an aggregate total of approximately $1.65 billion
- Global Medical Response in its $2.24 billion secured debt refinancing, which included a debt offering totaling $600 million
- Financing sources and initial purchasers in TechnipFMC’s $1.85 billion committed debt financing and $1 billion debut high yield notes offering in connection with TechnipFMC’s spinoff of Technip Energies
- TPC Group in its $930 million secured debt offering and related refinancing transactions
- Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners in connection with the sale of Hygo Energy Transition to New Fortress Energy
- Teine Energy in its $400 million high yield debt offering
Education
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University of Pennsylvania Law School, 2009 J.D.
magna cum laude; Order of the Coif; Law Review, Mark Lefever Prize Best Paper in Law & Economics
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Johns Hopkins University, 2006 M.A.
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Johns Hopkins University, 2004 B.S.
Clerkships
- Honorable Carolyn King, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit 2009-2010
Counsel Matt Hart’s practice concentrates on domestic and international corporate finance matters. He advises clients on equity and debt securities offerings, as well as corporate restructurings, with a particular focus on high yield debt offerings and the energy sector. Matt also regularly represents financial institutions and issuers on an array of complex corporate transactions.
Select corporate transactions Matt advised on include representing:
- Essential Utilities in equity and debt financing transactions raising more than $5 billion
- American Electric Power in connection with its SEC-registered $1 billion at-the-market equity program, and its equity units offerings with an aggregate total of approximately $1.65 billion
- Global Medical Response in its $2.24 billion secured debt refinancing, which included a debt offering totaling $600 million
- Financing sources and initial purchasers in TechnipFMC’s $1.85 billion committed debt financing and $1 billion debut high yield notes offering, in connection with TechnipFMC’s spinoff of Technip Energies
- TPC Group in its $930 million secured debt offering and related refinancing transactions
- Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners in connection with the sale of Hygo Energy Transition to New Fortress Energy
- Teine Energy in its $400 million high yield debt offering
- Dealer managers in connection with an offer, and related consent solicitation, by Superior Energy Services to exchange up to $635 million of its existing notes
- Initial Purchasers in EQT Corporation’s $500 million convertible notes offering
- Initial Purchasers in Centennial Resource Production’s $500 million debt offering
Matt clerked for the Hon. Carolyn D. King of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He received his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was a member of Order of the Coif and an editor of the law review. Matt earned his M.A. in Applied Economics in 2006 and B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 2004 from The Johns Hopkins University. He is admitted to practice in Texas and New York.