Steven J. Matays

Mr. Matays advises on the tax aspects of structuring financial instruments and executive compensation. Among others, recent notable matters include advising:

• Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. in its $71.3 billion acquisition by the Walt Disney Company and the related pre-merger spin-off of certain news, sports and broadcast businesses
• Sprint Corporation (as co-counsel) regarding the regulatory aspects of its $59 billion merger with T-Mobile US, Inc.
• Worldpay in its $43 billion merger with FIS
• Ecolab in the tax-free spin-off of its upstream energy business and its $4.4 billion combination with Apergy
• Rockwell Collins, Inc. in its $30 billion acquisition by United Technologies Corporation
• Viagogo Entertainment in its $4 billion acquisition of StubHub from eBay
• DST Systems, Inc. in its $5.4 billion acquisition by SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc.
• American Express Global Business Travel in its merger with Apollo Strategic Growth Capital at an enterprise value of $5.3 billion
• Veoneer, Inc. in its $4.5 billion acquisition by Qualcomm Incorporated and SSW Partners
• Ash Grove Cement Company in its $3.5 billion acquisition by CRH plc
• Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc. in its $2.8 billion acquisition by Penn National Gaming, Inc.
• Wells Fargo & Company in the $2.1 billion carve-out sale of Wells Fargo Asset Management to GTCR LLC and Reverence Capital Partners, L.P.
• Bruce Sherman, as part of an ownership group led by former New York Yankee Derek Jeter, in the $1.2 billion acquisition of Major League Baseball’s Miami Marlins
• Kelso & Company, L.P. in its $805 million sale of Physicians Endoscopy LLC to affiliates of UnitedHealth Group
• iCapital in its acquisition of SIMON Markets LLC
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company in the tax-free spin-offs of:
  • its enterprise services business and its combination with Computer Sciences Corp.
  • its software business and its combination with Micro Focus International plc
• Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. in its:
  • $3.8 billion sale of the performance materials division of its materials technologies segment to Evonik Industries AG
  • tax-free spin-off of its materials technologies business into a separate, publicly owned company called Versum Materials, Inc.

Mr. Matays has been repeatedly selected for inclusion in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Expert Guides’ Guide to the World’s Leading Tax Advisers and The Legal 500. He also has been recognized by ITR World Tax and was previously named a Tax MVP by Law360.