MATT AIKEN is a Partner in the firm’s Birmingham office. He has substantial experience representing highly regulated, transaction-intensive companies, with particular familiarity in the following areas:
Capital Markets – Lead or supervising counsel for numerous public and private offerings of debt and equity securities.
Development – Lead counsel for numerous acquisitions, joint ventures, resyndications, restructurings and other development-related activities.
Regulatory Compliance – Regularly advise companies on securities (1933 Act, 1934 Act, Sarbanes-Oxley, broker-dealer) and healthcare (Stark, Anti-Kickback, HIPAA) regulatory issues.
Corporate Governance – Substantial experience communicating with boards, evaluating board structure and function and counseling boards on independence, liability, business judgment and other corporate governance issues.
Project Management – Hands on experience managing significant projects involving numerous internal and external (primarily legal and accounting) resources.
Prior to beginning private practice, Matt served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Robert B. Propst, United States District Judge. In 2004, Matt was named by the Birmingham Business Journal as a member of its "Top 40 Under 40." Matt is also listed in "The Best Lawyers in America."
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
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Lead counsel to energy company in $575 million senior note offering.
Lead or supervisory counsel on over 50 private offerings involving ambulatory surgery centers and inpatient rehabilitation facilities.
Supervisory counsel to healthcare company in $1 billion convertible preferred stock offering.
Lead counsel to joint venture between two publicly traded insurance companies.
Lead counsel to real estate holding company which engages in 10 – 20 portfolio acquisitions per year.
Designed, implemented and managed numerous corporate-wide internal control/regulatory compliance initiatives for publicly traded healthcare company (Sarbanes-Oxley, securities training, broker-dealer, healthcare compliance).
Designed, implemented and managed healthcare compliance review and remediation initiative for over 200 facilities.
Lead counsel on one of the largest and most complicated 1934 Act filings in history (covering four annual reporting periods and requiring over 1 million man-hours to complete).
Lead counsel on numerous initial and follow-on private offerings in the healthcare, biotechnology, real estate and high technology industries.
Lead counsel for numerous private equity fund transactions.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES