Matt Lewis

Summary

I have been delivering practical, focused, and above all, effective solutions to business and legal issues for owners, managers, investors, borrowers, and lenders in a wide range of fields for over three decades. His practice concentrates on the real estate, wine, and technology industries and to privately held businesses generally. I am a "deal junkie" and generalist by design, and have a particularly strong background in debt financing transactions, representing borrowers in a variety of deals, many of them either in the wine business, or midsized private companies. In addition to my transactional work, I also serve as a strategic and operational adviser to investors in and owners of closely held clients, counseling them on organizational matters, operations, and other day-to-day issues. I see myself as particularly skilled at brokering internal conflicts and working with stakeholders with differing views to arrive at an appropriate, executable path forward for the enterprise. My experience includes all aspects of formation, development, financing, and dissolution. I have deep expertise in the Uniform Commercial Code. I have also advised numerous clients with respect to loans, debt workouts and restructurings, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, joint ventures, private placements, sales, intellectual property licensing, and foreign investments.