Matthew S. Arenson, P.C.
Overview
Matthew Arenson is a corporate partner in the Firm’s Chicago office. His practice primarily involves representing private equity sponsors and private companies in mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and recapitalizations. Matthew also counsels clients on a range of general corporate matters, including governance and executive compensation.
Matthew has worked on transactions in a variety of sectors, including healthcare and life sciences; aerospace and defense; specialty chemicals and materials; manufacturing; food and beverage; business and professional services; technology; and transportation and logistics. Matthew has handled matters on behalf of, among others, Sun Capital Partners, AE Industrial Partners, Brightstar Capital Partners, SK Capital Partners, Madison Dearborn Partners, Marlin Equity Partners, Water Street Healthcare Partners, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and Garnett Station Partners, as well as many of their portfolio companies.
Experience
Representative Matters
Healthcare & Life Sciences
- Custopharm in its $425 million sale to Hikma Pharmaceuticals
- Water Street Healthcare Partners in its investment in Solvias AG
- SK Capital in its acquisition of Apotex
- SK Capital in its acquisition of Wavelength Pharmaceuticals
- SK Capital in its acquisition of Perrigo’s active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) business
- HealthPlan Holdings in its $460 million sale to Wipro
- Oaktree Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: OAC) in its $1.6 billion business combination with Hims & Hers
- Medical Specialties Distributors in its sale to New Mountain Capital
Aerospace & Defense
- Redwire in its $615 million business combination with Genesis Park Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: GNPK)
- Triman Industries in its acquisitions of Brighton Cromwell and Crestwood Technology Group
- AE Industrial Partners in its acquisition of Forming Machine Industries and its subsequent acquisition of the Atlas Group
- AE Industrial Partners in its acquisition of Moeller Aerospace
- AE Industrial Partners in its acquisitions of AC&A (n/k/a Applied Composites), Applied Composites Engineering, EnCore Composite Structures, San Diego Composites and The Companies of North Coast
- UAV Factory in its acquisition of Jennings Aeronautics
Specialty Chemicals & Materials
- Sun Capital Partners in its $411 million take private of Select Interior Concepts
- Deltech Holdings in its acquisition of StanChem
- Sun Capital Partners in its acquisition of VantaCore Partners LLC
- SK Capital in its $1.0 billion acquisition of Israel Chemicals' fire safety and oil additives business
- Emerald Performance Materials in its sale to American Securities
Manufacturing
- Coveris Holdings in its $1.32 billion sale of its Americas packaging business to Transcontinental
- Infiltrator Water Technologies in its $1.08 billion sale to Advanced Drainage Systems Inc.
- Sun Capital Partners in its acquisition and subsequest sale of Trulite Glass & Aluminum Solutions to Truelink Capital
- Sun Capital Partners in its acquisition subsequest sale of Arrow Tru-Line to MiddleGround Capital
- Robertshaw Controls Company in its $900 million sale to One Rock Capital Partners
Food & Beverage
- Cambridge Franchise Holdings, LLC in its $238 million sale to Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc.
- The Coastal Companies in its sale to Sysco Corp.
- Captain D's Seafood Restaurant in its sale to Centre Capital Management
- Idaho Pacific in its acquisitions of Idaho Supreme Potatoes and BJ Livestock
- Flynn Restaurant Group in its $552.55 million acquisition of Pizza Hut and Wendy’s restaurants from NPC International
- Shearer's Foods in its $430 million acquisition of Snyder's-Lance’s private brands division and its acquisition of Medallion Foods
Business & Professional Services
- AE Industrial Partners in its $157.5 million take-private of CDI Corp.
- Belcan Engineering in its acquisitions of Schafer Corporation and Allegiant International
- AE Industrial Partners in its acquisition and subsequent sale of BHI Energy to Westinghouse Electric Company
- Sun Capital Partners in its acquisition of Cotton Holdings
- Brightstar Capital Partners in its acquisition of Engineering Research and Consulting (ERC) and subsequent acquisition of Oasis Systems to form ERC-Oasis
Technology
- BigBear.ai in its $1.378 billion business combination with GigCapital4 (NASDAQ: GIGGU, GIG, GIGGW) and its acquisition of ProModel Corporation
- Madison Dearborn Partners in its acquisition of Remote DBA Experts (n/k/a Navisite) and its subsequent acquisition of Velocity Technology Solutions
- Shiseido Americas in its acquisition of MATCHCo
Transportation & Logistics
- Sun Capital Partners in its acquisition of Total Transportation Services and TTSI’s subsequent acquisition of SalSon Logistics
- AE Industrial Partners in its acquisition of Solairus Aviation
- Sun Capital Partners in the acquisition of Century Distribution Systems
Clerk & Government Experience
Judicial ExternHonorable Sidney I. SchenkierUnited States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois2006
Judicial ExternHonorable Richard D. CudahyUnited States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit2006
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Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- 2008Illinois
Education
- Northwestern Pritzker School of LawJ.D.magna cum laude
Order of Coif
Associate Editor, Northwestern University Law Review
- University of MichiganB.A., Political Science; History Minorwith High Distinction