MATT AIKEN is a Partner in the firm’s Birmingham office and co-Chair of the Firm's Corporate & Securities Practice Group. He has substantial experience representing highly regulated, transaction-intensive companies, with particular familiarity in the following areas:
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Capital Markets – Lead or supervising counsel for numerous public and private offerings of debt and equity securities.
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Development – Lead counsel for numerous acquisitions, joint ventures, resyndications, restructurings and other development-related activities.
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Regulatory Compliance – Regularly advise companies on securities regulatory issues (1933 Act, 1934 Act, Investment Company Act, Investment Advisers Act, Sarbanes-Oxley, FINRA).
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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.
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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 on over 50 initial and follow-on private offerings in the healthcare, biotechnology, real estate and high technology industries.
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Lead counsel on over 20 private equity fund formations.
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Lead or supervisory counsel on over 50 private offerings involving ambulatory surgery centers and inpatient rehabilitation facilities.
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Lead counsel for over $500 million in transactions involving private equity funds.
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Lead counsel to energy company in $575 million senior note offering.
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Supervisory counsel to healthcare company in $1 billion convertible preferred stock offering.
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Lead counsel to joint venture between two publicly traded insurance companies.
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Lead counsel to real estate holding company which engages in 10 – 20 portfolio acquisitions per year.
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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).
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Designed, implemented and managed healthcare compliance review and remediation initiative for over 200 facilities.
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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).
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES