Matt is a former partner in Allen & Overy LLP, one of the world’s elite global law firms, where for twenty years he advised on complex multi-jurisdictional structured finance transactions. He headed one of the leading teams in Europe in commercial real estate securitization, advising most of the global investment banks and receiving several major industry awards. Matt began his career in Vancouver in 1993 before joining Allen & Overy’s London, UK, office in 1997 and then being assigned to the firm’s Frankfurt, Germany office in 1999. In addition to his practice, he designed and presented a course on the law and practice of the international capital markets for Masters Students at the Wolfgang von Goethe Universität, Institute of Law and Finance in Frankfurt.
Matt earned his undergraduate degree from McGill University and his Bachelor of Law from UBC.
Matt has been a committed SMUS parent since he and his family moved to Victoria and joined the SMUS community in 2017. Two of his three children, Annabel and Madeleine, are currently at SMUS, in Senior and Middle schools, with the eldest, Benedikt, having attended both SMUS and Shawnigan Lake School, before moving on to UBC.