Experience

Signal Capital Partners

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• General Counsel & Head of Investment Structuring

  • Dec 2022 - Present

  Matt serves as the firm’s General Counsel and Head of Investment Structuring. He is responsible for the oversight of all legal, structuring and compliance matters at the firm.

• Director, Real Estate

  • Jan 2020 - Dec 2022

  Leading the execution of real estate special situations investments.



Victoria Asset Management

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Vice President, Legal

  • Oct 2014 - Jan 2020

  Victoria Asset Management is an integrated real estate asset management business of Oaktree Capital Management LP. Victoria Asset Management supports Oaktree Capital Management in the underwriting and management of investments across the capital structure in all commercial real estate asset classes; ranging from non-performing loan investments, direct assets and preferred equity interests, corporate restructures and structured finance opportunities. Matt joined VicAsset on secondment from CMS Cameron McKenna in June 2014 and joined VicAsset permanently in October 2014 as an Associate. Matt was promoted to the roles of Vice President in February 2015 and Senior Vice President in February 2017. As Senior Vice President in Victoria Asset Management's legal team, Matt was responsible for assisting funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, L.P with the legal underwriting, structuring, financing and acquisition of distressed loan assets, direct real estate and other opportunistic and preferred equity investments across Europe. He was also responsible for general legal, corporate and compliance matters within VicAsset. As part of his role, Matt served as a director on the boards of portfolio companies within Oaktree's investments. Show less



CMS UK

• United Kingdom
• Law Practice
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lawyer, Restructuring and Banking

  • Aug 2012 - Sep 2014

  Solicitor in the Corporate Recovery and Restructuring team in the Banking and International Finance Group at CMS.Highlights included advising:• Oaktree Capital on its successful acquisition and workout of the Project Adelaide portfolio (comprising a portfolio of secured commercial real estate loans with a face value of circa €900 million). • The management board and PwC as subsequent administrators of Manches LLP on the pre-packaged administration sale of the business and assets to Penningtons LLP.• Deloitte as the administrators of Blockbuster on the trading administration and susbsequent administration sale of the business to Gordon Brothers.• The directors and management board of a leading office stationery and furniture supplier on a successful financial restructuring of c£200m of debt.• HSBC Bank plc on its successful application to the Court of Appeal to overturn the High Court's decision in Re Tambrook Jersey. The case centred on the jurisdiction of the UK courts to grant assistance to a foreign court under the cross-border provisions of section 426 of the Insolvency Act 1986 and was widely reported in the legal press. Show less

• Trainee Solicitor

  • Aug 2010 - Aug 2012