Matt is a trusted business and legal adviser to companies and entrepreneurs, providing practical guidance and counseling while remaining sharply focused on his clients’ needs and objectives. His clients include leaders in the automotive, telecommunications, technology and media sectors. Matt has a broad-based corporate practice and represents companies and investors in connection with their most critical and strategic transactions. He has negotiated and closed numerous mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, growth equity investments, service and licensing arrangements and other strategic transactions.
Matt also provides outside general counsel to both early-stage and mature private companies and assists with strategic planning and corporate initiatives, corporate governance, compliance matters, dispute avoidance and resolution, and a wide array of commercial agreements.
Matt began his legal career as a litigator at an international law firm where he represented automotive and other manufacturers in high-exposure product liability cases and other complex disputes.
Awards and Rankings
Selected for inclusion in Georgia Super Lawyers “Rising Stars”
Recognized by The Legal 500 United States in the area of mergers and acquisitions: middle-market (2016)
Experience
Represented Cox Enterprises in the sale of a majority stake in Cox Media Group's television stations and its Dayton newspaper and radio stations to Apollo Global Management.
Represented Cox Media Group in its sale of the businesses of Cox Target Media to Platinum Equity.
Represented client in its strategic investment in a leading provider of high-bandwidth, fiber-based communications networks and related services.
Represented a large media company in the sale of its newspapers and related media assets in Texas.
Represented Unite Private Networks in its acquisition of former Level 3 metro network assets in Albuquerque, New Mexico from CenturyLink.
Represented a large media company in the sale of two Florida newspapers and related assets.
Represented Manheim in its acquisition of Dealer Services Corporation and subsequent merger with Manheim Automotive Financial Services to create NextGear Capital, the world’s leading independent floor plan company.
Represented Autotrader.com in numerous strategic transactions, including its acquisitions of Kelley Blue Book and vAuto.
Represented Cox Communications in its acquisition of EasyTEL Communications, a provider of voice, data and video services to commercial customers in the Tulsa, Oklahoma, market.
Represented client in its strategic investment in one of the largest privately owned wireless telecommunications infrastructure companies in the United States.
Represented client in its investment in an international data center provider that serves cable operators, content providers and wireless carriers.
Represented Manheim in connection with the development of Go Auto Exchange.
Represented client in connection with its strategic investment in a leading auto finance company.
Represented Manheim in its acquisition of Ready Auto Transport, a leading automobile transport company.
Represented client in connection with its equity investment in one of the largest privately-held data center operators in the United States.
Represented large media company and its affiliates in several transactions for the sale of daily and community newspapers in three states.
Represented Cox Target Media in its acquisition of Savings.com.
Represented Cox Communications in the sale of multiple cable television systems serving approximately 950,000 subscribers in eight states to Suddenlink Communications.
Represented private equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners in connection with its acquisitions of eight television stations from Fox Television and nine television stations from The New York Times Company.
Represented Insight Communications in its sale to Time Warner Cable.
Represented cable operator in connection with the sale of cable systems serving 55,000 subscribers in five states.
Represented Cox Enterprises in its agreement to sell Cox Media Group's radio station portfolio and its CoxReps and Gamut national advertising businesses to Apollo Global Management.
News
Press Releases
Eversheds Sutherland Represents Cox Enterprises in Sale of Cox Media Group's Radio Station Portfolio (July 1, 2019)
ATLANTA - Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to announce that it represented Cox Enterprises on their agreement to sell Cox Media Group's Radio station portfolio as well as its CoxReps and Gamut ...
Eversheds Sutherland Represents Cox Enterprises in Sale of Majority Stake in Cox Media Group Television Stations to Apollo Global Management (March 5, 2019)
Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to announce that it represented Cox Enterprises on their agreement with funds managed by Apollo Global Management, LLC (Apollo) to buy a majority interest in Cox Media ...
16 Sutherland Practice Areas, 59 Attorneys Named Among Nation’s Best in 2016 Legal 500 United States (June 16, 2016)
ATLANTA and WASHINGTON-Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP is pleased to announce that 16 practice areas and 59 attorneys have been ranked in the 2016 edition of The Legal 500 United States. Legal 500 is ...
Sutherland Welcomes Attorneys Matt Block and Jason S. McCarter as Partners in the Firm’s Atlanta Office (August 12, 2013)
ATLANTA, August 12, 2013 - Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP is pleased to announce the addition of four new attorneys to its Atlanta office. Matt Block has joined the firm’s Corporate Group as a ...
