Gabriel G. Matus

Gabriel Matus is an attorney in the Corporate Practice Group in the firm's New York office.

Mr. Matus regularly counsels public and private companies in connection with mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, executive compensation, corporate governance and a variety of securities law issues. Mr. Matus has also been involved in various bankruptcy-related restructurings and dispositions.

Mr. Matus also counsels boards of directors of several not-for-profit corporations, including Aid for AIDS International, Inc. and Friends of Lower Manhattan, Inc., on corporate governance, finance and other corporate issues.

Education

• J.D., New York Law School, cum laude, 2000
• B.A., University of Maryland, Dean's List, 1996

Admissions

• New York

Representative M&A transactions:

• Blue & White Food Products Corp. in the sale of its 49% joint venture interest in the Sabra^TM dips and spreads business
• Hollywood Media Corp. in the $35 million sale of its Baseline division to The New York Times Company
• CBS Corporation in its $325 million acquisition of CSTV Networks, Inc.
• L-1 Identity Solutions, Inc. in its $35 million acquisition of Iridian Technologies, Inc.

Corporate Finance and Lending Transactions:

• FirmGreen, Inc. in its development equity/debt financing and related licensing matters for landfill gas extraction projects

• Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, Inc. in its $85 million acquisition financing for the purchase of Haverstick Consulting, Inc.

Restructuring matters:

• The restructuring of Enron Corp.'s North American pipeline business and the formation of CrossCountry Energy, LLC.
• The sale of CrossCountry Energy, LLC to NuCoastal LLC for approximately $2.2 billion.
• IMPATH Inc.'s sale of Medical Registry Services Inc. and Tamtron Corporation to IMPAC Medical Systems, Inc. for approximately $22 million.
• IMPATH Inc.'s sale of IMPATH Physician Services, Inc. and IMPATH Predictive Oncology, Inc. to Genzyme Corporation for approximately $215 million.

Memberships

• Board of Directors, Friends of Africa International, Inc.
• Board of Directors, Seeds of Solutions, Inc.
• Member, Securities Regulation Committee of the New York State Bar Association - Business Law Section
• Member, Association of the Bar of the City of New York
• Member, Hispanic National Bar Association
• Member, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts

Articles

"Not So Big MAC, Don't Count on the Credit Crunch to Get You Out Of a Bad Deal" The Daily Deal, November 19, 2007 (Co-author)

"The Regulation of Alternative Trading Systems: Market Fragmentation and the New Market Structure," New York Law School Law Review, Vol. 44 (2001)

Corporate & Securities Law Blog Articles

• "The Importance of Well-Crafted MAE Provisions: Sallie Mae in Courtroom Battle with J.C. Flowers-led Buyout Group", October 24, 2007

Hispanic/Latino Newsletter

• Enfoque Latino - Spring 2008