Matthew B. Goodman

Technology, Media and Telecommunications

• BCE Inc. in its $577 million acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding shares of GLENTEL
• Candy Digital in its merger with Palm NFT Studio and its Series A1 financing round led by Galaxy and ConsenSys Mesh, with participation from 10T Holdings and ConsenSys, among others
• CBRE Group in its acquisition of Direct Line Global from Guardian Capital
• Distributed Technologies Research in its strategic partnership with Bakkt under which DTR's stablecoin-based payments technology infrastructure will be integrated with Bakkt’s crypto trading and brokerage technology
• FGS Global in its investment by KKR, on governance and certain U.S. corporate and securities law matters, in connection with its acquisition of Longview Communications and Public Affairs and in connection with KKR’s acquisition of WPP’s full equity position in FGS
• Ron Shaich’s Act III Holdings in the equity financing of PAR Technology Corporation’s $500 million acquisition of Punchh

• Symbotic in several transactions, including its:
  • $200 million acquisition of Advanced Systems and Robotics business from Walmart
  • establishment of GreenBox Systems with SoftBank and its approximately $7.5 billion new customer contract with GreenBox
  • $5.5 billion merger with SVF Investment Corp. 3, a SPAC sponsored by an affiliate of Softbank Investment Advisers
  • arrangement with Walmart to reimagine Walmart’s regional distribution network through Symbotic’s high tech systems
• Yuga Labs in its acquisition of PROOF

Consumer & Retail

• Anheuser-Busch InBev in several transactions, including its:
  • launch of a new energy drink partnership with 1st Phorm and Dana White
  • divestiture of Craft Brew Alliance’s Kona Brewing operations in Hawaii to PV Brewing Partners
  • agreement with Starbucks to produce, bottle, distribute and market the first Teavana Ready-to-Drink tea in the U.S.
  • subsidiary Ambev’s $350 million acquisition of brands for the Canadian and other markets from the Mark Anthony Group
  • $600 million sale of a brewery operation from subsidiary Grupo Modelo to Constellation Brands
  • $20.1 billion acquisition of the remaining stake it did not already own in Grupo Modelo
• Cronos Group in several transactions, including its:
  • $110 million purchase of an option to acquire a 10.5% ownership stake in PharmaCann
  • agreement with Kristen Bell in the launch of Happy Dance™, a line of Premium CBD Skincare
  • $1.8 billion sale of a minority stake to Altria Group
  • $300 million acquisition of four of Redwood Holding Group’s operating subsidiaries
• GGP in its $28 billion acquisition by Brookfield Property Partners
• Investor group led by entrepreneur and sports card collector Nat Turner, D1 Capital Partners and Cohen Private Ventures in its $853 million acquisition of Collectors Universe, and Collectors in raising $100 million in new funding at a $4.3 billion valuation, acquisitions of Card Ladder and SGC, and in a series of transactions with eBay that included a commercial agreement, the sale of Goldin from Collectors to eBay, and the sale of the eBay vault from eBay to PSA
• Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Weber in connection with BDT Capital Partners’ $3.7 billion acquisition of Weber’s outstanding Class A Shares that BDT did not already own

Healthcare & Life Sciences

• Baxter International in the $3.8 billion acquisition of its Kidney Care Segment, Vantive, by Carlyle
• Colson Associates in the sale of its majority interest in the Colson Medical Companies to Marmon Holdings, a Berkshire Hathaway company
• Stryker Corporation in its $2.8 billion acquisition of Sage Products from Madison Dearborn Partners
• Sumitovant Biopharma and Sumitomo Pharma in their $2.9 billion acquisition of Myovant Sciences
• UnitedHealth Group in its subsidiary OptumRx’s $12 billion combination with Catamaran Corporation

Sports & Entertainment

• Anheuser-Busch InBev in the extension of its nearly 40-year partnership with FIFA as the official beer sponsor of the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™, the FIFA Club World Cup 2025™ and the FIFA World Cup 2026™, and its Worldwide Olympic Partnership through 2028 with the International Olympic Committee, through which AB InBev’s Corona Cero will be the global beer sponsor of the Olympic Games
• Bill Ackman, CEO and Portfolio Manager of Pershing Square Capital Management, in connection with The Professional Tennis Players Association’s launch of Winners Alliance and its $26 million equity raise
• MUSIC as the lead investor in Soundtrack Your Brand’s $15 million pre-growth round and as a co-investor in connection with Francisco Partners' investment in Kobalt

Financial Services

• IntercontinentalExchange in its $8.2 billion acquisition of NYSE Euronext
• SoftBank Group in connection with Twenty One’s pending business combination with Cantor Equity Partners, a SPAC sponsored by Cantor Fitzgerald, through which Twenty One will become a public company majority-owned by Tether and Bitfinex, with significant minority ownership by SoftBank
• Swiss Re Life Capital, a wholly-owned unit of Swiss Re AG, in the $900 million sale of the U.S. portion of Swiss Re’s Admin Re division, consisting of Reassure America Life Insurance Company and related subsidiaries, to Jackson National Life Insurance Company, a unit of Prudential
• Wells Fargo Bank in its acquisition of the North American reserved-based and related diversified energy lending business of BNP Paribas
• J.P. Morgan Securities, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Centerview Partners and Perella Weinberg Partners as financial advisers in several significant transactions

Manufacturing & Industrials

• Alex Hernandez, CEO of PowerBridge, in connection with Five Point Infrastructure’s formation and funding of PowerBridge, with an equity commitment of up to $1 billion to develop and build data centers in the Permian Basin
• Nippon Steel Corporation in several transactions, including:
• its pending $14 billion acquisition of United States Steel Corporation
• the concurrent pending sale of NS Kote, which holds Nippon Steel's entire equity interest in AM/NS Calvert, to ArcelorMittal
• SoftBank Vision Fund 2, as lead investor, in Terabase Energy’s Series C financing round
• ZF Friedrichshafen in its $12.4 billion acquisition of TRW Automotive Holdings