Matthew Overton

Corporate and Commercial

Matthew practices across a broad range of transactional and advisory work for both private and public companies, with extensive experience across M&A, start-ups, growth capital and management advisory, as well as working with employee incentive structures and providing specialist advice in respect of SEIS and EIS matters, for both investors and founders.

He has a particular focus on working with start-ups and young companies in a variety of sectors, not least the tech sector, building on his experience in the IT industry prior to qualifying as a solicitor, with the aim to use his expertise to help founders throughout their journey from early seed capital raisings through to series A, B and C, and onwards, whether as a scale-up business or with a view to an exit.  Matthew also has experience of drafting all manner of commercial contracts both in respect of UK transactions and overseas matters in Europe and beyond.

Matthew also acts regularly for AIM-listed clients in relation to IPOs, placings and reverse takeovers, often with a multi-jurisdictional dimension.

Coopers Company and Coborn School, Upminster; Sheffield Hallam University (BA (Hons.) Business Studies); College of Law, London (GDL and LPC)