Lawyers
Eileen P. Matthews
Eileen P. Matthews is of Counsel to Kaplan Rice LLP after a legal career of more than three decades as a corporate attorney at Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP, an International Law Firm where Ms. Matthews was a Partner in the firm’s Corporate Department for 21 years and Co-Chair of the firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Group for 8 years.
Ms. Matthews has advised international and domestic private and public corporations on complex cross-border merger and acquisition transactions, private equity investments, and joint ventures, with a concentration in strategic private equity investment, principally for high net-worth individuals and their holding companies, and advised clients on a broad range of corporate and international matters. Ms. Matthews has also advised international and domestic banks and non-bank clients before principal US bank regulatory agencies and in connection with financing activities, acquisitions, and numerous other transactional matters.
Ms. Matthews business understanding and savvy have enhanced her in-depth knowledge and experience in the field of corporate law. In her practice Ms. Matthews’ key responsibilities included:
- Leading worldwide teams of multi-disciplinary professionals in due diligence, strategic planning, structuring, negotiation and drafting transaction documentation, financial and corporate analysis, risk management, and management of stakeholder expectations;
- Advising boards of directors and senior management teams re: diligence, risk analysis, regulatory requirements, proposed transaction structure, legal and business issues and proposed solutions, and facilitated discussion to enable the boards and senior management teams to make informed decisions;
- Planning and carrying out corporate restructuring; and
- Advising clients on various issues as outside general counsel.
Representative Matters:
- Represented 3 shareholders constituting the control group in the sale of their in a television, advertising and radio measurement business in Mexico to subsidiaries of a global information and management company. The shareholder dispositions were structured as 2 separate transactions, and resulted in purchaser gaining a significant market share in the television, advertising and radio measurement business in Mexico, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic.
- Represented a Peruvian client in connection with the corporate structuring and governance aspects of a restructuring of his family’s corporate holdings of approximately US$ 7 billion, to facilitate succession planning for future generations and establish the separation between the right to participate in distributions and the right to participate in corporate management of such holdings, including the establishment of qualifications for family members to participate in corporate management.
- Represented management and all other stockholders of a Delaware corporation which is an international freight forwarder and logistics transport provider, specializing in freight services primarily between Asia and the United States, in the sale of their stock to an Australian public company which is the Asian Region’s leading provider of integrated logistics services through an extensive worldwide network in 55 countries. Following the closing, we successfully advised (along with the post-acquisition practice group at BDO Consulting) the Seller
- Representative in the purchase price reconciliation and dispute resolution conducted before the independent accounting firm, E&Y.
- Represented one of the world’s largest commodities firms in the sale of a southeast zinc mine to a strategic purchaser for over $125 million.
- Represented a world-renown laboratory in several transactions, including a joint venture with respect to the use of recombinant DNA technologies on maize, and the issuance of Nassau County Industrial Development Agency, New York, Civil Facility Revenue Bonds.
- Represented a Hong Kong holding company owned by a group of Chinese investors in connection with the structuring and negotiation of a Joint Venture with a US-based company for the purchase, refitting and operation of a facility to process aluminum scrap from auto-shredders, primarily for export to Asia.
- Represented the founder of a US-based transportation and logistics company in connection with corporate planning, restructuring and negotiation of a share exchange, consolidating ownership in a single holding company, buy-out negotiations with a dissenting shareholder, and resolution of permitting issues.
- Represented the foreign partners of a US-based real estate partnership in connection with the restructuring and sale of their direct and indirect partnership interests to a NYC real estate developer, representing the final parcel needed for the redevelopment of property adjacent to Grand Central Terminal.
- Represented a debtor’s estate in connection with the corporate aspects of debtor’s unified bankruptcy, including, the negotiation of several debtor-in-possession credit facilities and the sale at auction of substantially all of the assets of the aerospace division.
- Represented an Argentine company in its financing through a NY law governed $250 million A/B loan facility with Corporación Andino de Fomento (the Latin American development bank) to be used for the development of a $433 million soybean crushing facility, an electricity co-generation plant, and other related assets. The A-Loan was provided by the development bank and the B-Loan participations were provided by leading international banks.
- Various representations of corporate executives in connection with the negotiation of executive compensation agreements, arising out of M&A transactions or otherwise and negotiated settlements to protect the rights of executives in connection with the termination or allegations of breach of executive compensation agreements.
