Matthew Brinker

Practice Areas

Corporate & Business

Employment

Healthcare

International

Career

Matt Brinker, who serves as the Chair of the Corporate & Business Group, focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital, start-up and emerging growth companies, joint ventures, and other business and commercial transactions, including employment agreements.

Professional Memberships

Association for Corporate Growth (ACG Philadelphia), Member

Experience

Middle-market private equity firms and their portfolio companies in numerous M&A transactions, on the buy-side and the sell-side, domestic and international, including transactions with complex preferred equity financing and/or senior secured and mezzanine debt financing

Founders, entrepreneurs and start-ups, as well as investors, in a variety of sectors, such as IT Services, Sports Marketing, Finance & FinTech, Healthcare & MedTech, Pharma Services, Logistics & Delivery Services, Consulting & Business Services, Hospitality & Entertainment and Food Services

Early-stage and emerging companies in capital-raising transactions—from seed rounds and angel investments to Series A/B/C etc. rounds and control investments

Closely held businesses as “outside general counsel” on various commercial and corporate matters

B Corps and other benefit companies on organizational, governance and compliance matters

Work Highlights

Represented a cloud-based financial data and intelligence platform during its recapitalization and strategic sale of a minority stake to a leading global financial institution. This complex transaction, which involved various domestic and international components, ensured our client retained control of the business, had long-term commercial agreements in place, and was sufficiently protected in its new chapter with a strategic minority owner.

Represented a next-generation ServiceNow consultancy in its first significant add-on acquisition—the purchase of a national IT services provider.

Represented a next-generation ServiceNow consultancy in its transformational add-on acquisition of a group of companies. The transaction expanded the consultancy from a U.S.-focused IT services provider into a global platform with operations across the U.S., Latin America, and Europe.

Represented an international AgroSciences testing and services company in its strategic acquisition of a contract research site and services business, including long-term leases for the research farms used in the business.

Represented the founders of a clinical trial and pharmaceutical development consulting and technology company in their exit sale to a PE-backed international pharma services conglomerate for consideration in excess of $50 million, including cash and rollover equity.

Represented the founders of a SaaS technology company in the auto repair shop industry in their exit sale to a private equity buyer for consideration in excess of $55 million, including cash and rollover equity.

Represented an app-based construction site management software provider and its founder in the sale of all of the company’s assets to a strategic acquirer.

Represented a middle-market private equity fund in its carve-out acquisition of a portfolio company in the electronic component manufacturing industry and then subsequent sale to a strategic acquirer.

Represented a private equity fund in its acquisition of a specialty transportation services company and then in its growth and exit sale for $70+ million to another private equity buyer.

Represented a private equity-backed national courier and logistics company in connection with its strategic acquisition of another national courier and logistics company for $40+ million and then several strategic bolt-on acquisitions from $5+ million to $20+ million.

Represented a healthcare technology company in its strategic sale to a large international conglomerate for $140+ million.

Represented the selling group, including two founding shareholders, in an e-commerce company’s sale to a private-equity-backed strategic acquirer for $30+ million, including rollover equity and earn-out consideration.

Represented a staffing company in its $50+ million sale, including rollover equity, to a private equity buyer.

Industry Sector Expertise

Emerging companies

Mid-Cap/middle market

Venture capital

Private equity

Sustainable and mission-driven businesses

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Pennsylvania

New Jersey

Education

Awards