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Overview

Matthew Hunt is a partner and Co-Head of the firm's Private Equity Group. Matt has a diversified corporate practice with a particular focus on private equity transactions, including management and leveraged buyouts, add-on acquisitions, exits, carve-outs, co-investments, PIPEs and other strategic arrangements. He acts for private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in complex domestic and cross-border mandates across various industries.

Matt's practice also includes corporate and securities law, where he advises management and boards of directors, as well as dealers and other market participants, on public and private mergers and acquisitions, capital markets transactions and governance matters.

Matt joined the firm after several years at another leading Canadian law firm. His career includes engagements in the legal department of a major Canadian financial institution and at a prominent international trade law firm in Washington, DC.

,,He is fantastic, very responsive, always available and detail-oriented. He understands the risks we are willing to take versus the risks lawyers are willing to take.,,

What Clients Say

Client Work

EQT Infrastructure, a global investment organization, as Canadian counsel to EQT Infrastructure V, in its acquisition of First Student and First Transit, two North American subsidiaries of the UK publicly listed company First Group plc, and market leading providers of essential transportation services to schools and communities in North America, for US$4.6 billion.
Kensington Capital Partners and its portfolio company AGNORA Ltd., in its acquisition of West Coast Glass Products, a premium architectural glass fabricator in Southern California, including the negotiation of related financing arrangements. 
Hut 8 Corp., one of the world's largest publicly traded cryptocurrency mining companies, in the stalking horse acquisition, in partnership with Macquarie Equipment Finance, a subsidiary of Macquarie Group Limited, of four natural-gas-fired generating facilities in Ontario from Validus Power Corp., as part of the Validus group’s restructuring proceedings under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (Canada). 
Equitable Bank in its acquisition of Concentra Bank at a transaction value of approximately $495M to become Canada's 7th largest independent Canadian bank by assets.
CF Acquisition Corp. VI, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) sponsored by Cantor Fitzgerald, as Canadian counsel on its business combination with Rumble Inc., a high growth neutral video distribution platform with an international user/subscriber base, valued at an initial enterprise value of US$2.1-billion.
Superior Gold Inc., in its acquisition by Catalyst Metals Limited, an ASX-listed company, completed by way of a statutory plan of arrangement.

Recognitions & Awards

The Legal 500 Canada

Next Generation Lawyer, Corporate and M&A

Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory

Repeatedly Recommended, Corporate Finance & Securities; Corporate Mid-Market
 

Lexpert Special Edition: Technology and Health

Recognized as one of Canada's leading lawyers in Technology and Health

Education & Bar Admissions

Education

  • Memorial University of Newfoundland, BA, 2003
  • McMaster University, MA, 2005
  • University of Ottawa, LLB, 2009, cum laude
  • American University, Washington College of Law, JD, 2009, magna cum laude

Bar Admissions

  • Ontario, 2010

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