Matthew Chapman is a partner in the firm's Pittsburgh office where he focuses his practice on advising public and private companies, boards of directors, special committees, senior management, trustees, and institutional fiduciaries in connection with transformative corporate events and significant structuring and planning issues.
His transactional experience includes domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, employee stock ownership plans, including ESOP refinancing and re-leveraging transactions, and general corporate matters. Matt’s M&A and ESOP representations have had transaction values ranging from a few million dollars to well over US$1 billion.
Matt also has experience in pension risk transfers, including representing independent fiduciaries and plan sponsors in pension risk transfers valued in the aggregate at over US$100 billion. Matt has negotiated hundreds of purchase/commitment agreements (assets-in-kind and cash) and group annuity contracts (buy-in and buy-out) with leading insurers in pension risk transfers. Matt has also negotiated reinsurance agreements, insurance company guarantees, capital maintenance agreements, retrocession agreements, cut-through trusts, separate account plan of operations, investment guidelines, plan trustee agreements, trustee direction letters, investment appointment agreements and similar on behalf of plan sponsor and independent fiduciary clients.
