Matthew J Brennan

Practice Areas

General Practice; Capital Markets; Commercial Real Estate; Credit & Leveraged Finance; Environmental Transactions; Environmental Litigation; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG); and Mergers & Acquisitions.

Career

Special Counsel since 1998. Provides environmental advice on a broad range of commercial transactions. Supports the Firm’s M&A, Project Finance, Real Estate, Securities and Finance Groups in evaluating environmental liabilities and risks, in structuring transactions to minimize risk and in negotiating the allocation of environmental responsibilities between parties in transactions. Over the last three decades, has provided environmental advice to a great number of lenders, corporations and governments in a variety of commercial matters.

Clients include Abiomed, Amgen, Anheuser-Busch InBev, Ares, AT&T, The AZEK Company, Baxter International, Bank of New York Mellon, Bayer, Biohaven, BNP Paribas, BP, Canadian Pacific Kansas City, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Chubb, CNH Industrial, CONMED, Diageo, Diebold Nixdorf, DigitalBridge Group, E.ON, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Goldman Sachs, Greenbelt Conservancy, , Hudbay Minerals, Hyzon Motors, JP Morgan, K+S AG, Kraft, L3Harris Technologies, Mitsui, Oaktree Capital Management, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Philips, Rio Tinto, Royal Bank of Canada, Seagen, Signify, Standard Industries, Subway, Symbotic, Teck Resources, Tenaris, Tishman Speyer, UBS, UnitedHealth Group, United Rentals, Volkswagen and Wells Fargo.

Professional Memberships

Member of the New York City Bar Association; Member of the American Bar Association; Member of the New Jersey Bar Association; President, Board of Directors of The Opportunity Center.

Personal

University of Pennsylvania Law (JD, 1986); SUNY at New Paltz (BA, 1979).