Matthew J. Jann

Matt maintains a broad corporate transactional practice with a focus on the purchase and sale of businesses and securities. He has experience in all aspects of M&A, from due diligence to the intense negotiation and documentation of some of the industry’s most complex agreements, to the review and preparation of fairness opinions and post-closing dispute resolution.

Matt is sought after to serve as counsel on many well-known clients’ most significant and disruptive transactions. He has built a robust practice in the manufacturing sector (including plastics and medical devices) and the B2B and professional services industries. Matt also frequently advises diverse-owned businesses (including minority business enterprises certified by the NMSDC), as well as clients in sports, software, adtech, consumer goods, and oil and gas. The typical value of Matt’s deals ranges from $100 million to $1.5 billion.

Matt is particularly sought after for:

• Mergers and acquisitions
• Equity investments
• Corporate governance

Matt’s recent notable experience includes his representation of:

• Wyatt Technology, a pioneer in innovative light scattering and field-flow fractionation instruments, software, accessories and services, in its $1.36 billion acquisition by Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), a global leader in analytical instruments and software.
• Crown Technical Systems, a leader in fully integrated power distribution and protection systems, and its affiliated entities in their $325 million all-cash sale to Flex (NASDAQ: FLEX), a global leader in manufacturing and supply chain solutions.
• p-value Group of Companies, a premier medical communications organization serving the life sciences sector, in its sale to Publicis Health, the world’s most connected and data-powered health communications network and part of Publicis Groupe, a publicly traded French multinational advertising and public relations company.
• SKB Cases, a leading manufacturer of specialty protective plastic cases that serves over 2,000 customers across the military, industrial, music, pro AV and sports markets, in its investment by MPE Partners.
• A foreign provider of premium-quality drinking water in its sale to a leading U.S.-based water treatment supplier. The transaction underwent a rigorous six-month review by the foreign antitrust authority, requiring strategic navigation of complex regulatory challenges.
• TriMed Inc., a global developer of market-leading orthopedic implants, in the sale of a majority interest to Henry Schein, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSIC), the world’s largest provider of health care solutions to office-based dental and medical practitioners.

Additional significant experience includes his representation of:

• A pair of California-based recycling and diversion companies that specialize in the collection and
  processing of waste in their sale to a private equity firm, exceeding $1 billion.
• An industrial software company in its $1 billion sale to a publicly traded Swedish engineering company.
• A distillery company in the sale of its premium gin brand.
• Palisade Group, LLC, in drafting and negotiating a partnership agreement related to the $47.5 million acquisition of two Class A office buildings in Seattle, Washington.
• An energy services company in the acquisition of numerous construction companies and a to-be-built photovoltaic project covering several sites in Southern California.

An emerging thought leader, Matt co-authored the 2022 – 2025 editions of The Rutter Group’s California Practice Guide: Corporations and California Practice Guide: Pass-Through Entities.