Matthew Fisher

Partner Mergers & Acquisitions Private Equity

Boston +1 617 385 7425

Matthew Fisher

Overview

Matthew Fisher is a corporate partner in the Boston office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. His practice focuses on complex corporate and transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, growth equity and minority investments, joint ventures, corporate reorganizations and general corporate matters relating to the portfolio companies of private equity clients.

  • ABRY Partners
    • and its portfolio company, Millennium Trust Company, on the acquisition of Benefit Resource from CIP Capital
    • and its portfolio company, Millennium Trust Company, on the acquisition of PayFlex from CVS Health
    • and its portfolio company, Portfolio Group, in their investments in Cardiff Insurance Group and in connection with Cardiff Insurance Group’s concurrent acquisitions of The Ohlson Group and The Plateau Group
    • in its acquisition of Ascend Healthcare
    • in its acquisition of Best Lawyers from Levine Leichtman Capital Partners
    • in its acquisition of Franklin Energy Group from Kohlberg & Company, LLC
    • in its acquisition of Millennium Trust Company from Parthenon Capital
    • in its acquisition of Propark Mobility
    • in its acquisition of NetNumber Global Data Services
    • in its acquisition of Screenvision Media from Shamrock Capital and AMC Theaters
    • in its acquisition of Turnberry Solutions
    • in its sale of Casamba to Net Health, a portfolio company of The Carlyle Group
    • in its sale of The Hilb Group to The Carlyle Group
  • American Securities in its acquisition of Trace3 from H.I.G. Capital
  • Audax Group
    • and Genuine Cable Group in their acquisition of Allied Wire & Cable
    • in its sale of Altasciences to Novo Holdings
  • Bain Capital Private Equity
    • and its portfolio company, Apex Tool Group, in a liability management transaction, which included a $125 million new money investment
    • in its acquisition of Imperial Dade from Audax Private Equity, and Imperial Dade in various add-on acquisitions
    • in its acquisition of Varsity Brands from Charlesbank Capital Partners and Partners Group
    • in its sale of a significant equity stake in Imperial Dade to Advent International 
    • in the recapitalization of Imperial Dade and related formation of a single-asset continuation fund
    • on the €2.1 billion public takeover of Ahlstrom-Munksjö Oyj
  • Intervale Capital and Pro Oil & Gas Services in the acquisition of Elite Production Services and concurrent acquisition of Whitetail Well Testing
  • L Catterton
    • in its acquisition of West Marine from Monomoy Capital Partners
    • and its portfolio company, West Marine, on a comprehensive out-of-court restructuring of approximately $800 million of debt
  • Origami Capital Partners in its investment in Mondee
  • Partners Group and its portfolio company, Confluent Health, in its acquisition of MOTION PT Group
  • Summit Partners
    • in its acquisition of Teaching Strategies from L Squared Capital Partners
    • in its acquisition of Metro Tech Services from Reedy Industries, and Metro Tech in various add-on acquisitions
    • in its investment in Brooklinen
    • in its sale of Teaching Strategies to KKR
  • TA Associates in its investment in ARI Network Services
  • Thomas H. Lee Partners in its acquisition of Insurance Technologies
  • TPG Growth
    • and its portfolio company, People 2.0, in the acquisition of TalentWave
    • in its acquisition of People 2.0 from CIP Capital
  • Other representative matters:
    • Clearwater Analytics (NYSE: CWAN) in its $40 million acquisition of the Risk and Performance Analytics Solutions from Wilshire Advisors
    • Elementum Advisors in its sale of a minority equity stake to White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd.
    • Fastmed Holdings and certain of its affiliates in their deleveraging transaction, which resulted in the consensual equitization of approximately $80 million in funded debt and the paydown of approximately $148 million in secured debt
    • J.P. Morgan Asset Management in the formation of its $1.06 billion Lynstone Special Situations Fund
    • Wafra Investment Advisory Group in its secondary sale of nine portfolio companies

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Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2017Massachusetts
  • 2018New York

Education

  • Boston University School of LawJ.D.cum laude2017

    Certificate in Transactional Practice Skills, with Honors

  • Syracuse UniversityB.A., Economics, Political Science & Financecum laude2014