Matthew D. Bivona
Partner
Areas of Focus
- Capital Markets
- Corporate & Finance
- Corporate Governance
- Pro Bono
- Investment Management
- Joint Ventures & Strategic Alliances
- Litigation Finance
- Private Credit
- Private Equity Transactions
- Private Equity
- Private Capital
- Handles all aspects of finance, corporate and securities law.
- Experience includes fund finance transactions, including subscription facilities, net asset value (NAV) facilities and management fee and general partner (GP) facilities.
- Clients include public and private companies, private equity funds, and real estate and hospitality companies.
Matthew’s practice includes all aspects of finance, corporate and securities law. He represents borrowers and lenders in secured and unsecured credit facilities and other lending arrangements, issuers in connection with issuances of high-yield debt securities in Rule 144A and Regulation S offerings, private placements and restructuring transactions, and debtors and creditors in distressed debt restructurings.
Matthew advises both borrowers and lenders on a wide range of fund finance transactions, including subscription facilities, NAV facilities and management fee and GP facilities.
He also advises clients in the real estate and hospitality industries in a wide range of financing activities, including mortgage and mezzanine lending arrangements, private equity and joint ventures.
In addition, Matthew represents public companies in ongoing corporate and securities matters, including advising with respect to securities reporting and disclosure, stockholder meetings, tender offers and corporate governance and compliance.
- Advising investment funds in all aspects of fund finance.
- Advising a public hotel real estate investment trust (REIT) in connection with general corporate, finance and securities matters. Assisted with acquisitions, dispositions and joint venture transactions, as well as tender offers, Rule 144A offerings, credit facilities and commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) loans, and registered equity offerings.
- Representing a public nutritional supplements company in connection with securities and corporate governance matters.
- Counseling numerous hotel and office building owners in connection with asset acquisitions, dispositions and joint ventures, and finance transactions.
- Advising private equity clients in connection with direct lending transactions.
EducationJ.D., Southern Methodist University School of Law, magna cum laude, 2008
B.A., University of Oklahoma, summa cum laude, 2005
J.D., Southern Methodist University School of Law, magna cum laude, 2008
B.A., University of Oklahoma, summa cum laude, 2005
Bar AdmissionsTexas
Texas
- Member, State Bar of Texas.
- Member, Dallas Bar Association.