Matthew Tippett

Services

• Tax
• Mergers & Acquisitions 
• Private Investment Funds
• Corporate & Partnership Tax Planning
• Cannabis

Matthew Tippett is a Member in the Firm’s Tax Department and is based in Westport, CT. Matt advises clients on wide range of transactions, including domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, debt and equity financings, restructurings and debt workouts, and the formation of private investment funds. He also regularly advises founders on the formation of their businesses, including choice of entity, structuring and “qualified small business stock” considerations.

Matt has been recognized as a leading Tax lawyer by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America. Clients particularly value Matt’s ability to explain complex tax issues in a way that is easily understandable and the commercial approach he takes to solving their business problems.

Prior to joining the Firm, Matt was a Tax lawyer at elite law firms in New York.

Matt received his J.D. (cum laude) from Washington University in St. Louis and his LL.M. in Taxation from New York University, where he was a Nina W. Werblow Tax Scholar. He received his B.S. in Finance from Colorado State University.

Education

• New York University School of Law, LL.M. in Taxation, 2015
• Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2014
• Colorado State University, B.S. in Finance, 2010
  

Admissions

• State of New York
• State of Connecticut

Representative Transactions*

• MGM Resorts International in its $17.2 billion sale of MGM Growth Properties to VICI Properties
• MGM Resorts International in its $1.62 billion acquisition of The Cosmopolitan Las Vegas from Blackstone
• Brookfield Asset Management in its $15 billion capital raise for the Brookfield Global Transition Fund, the world’s largest private investment fund dedicated to a net-zero carbon economy
• Qualtrics International in its $12.5 billion take-private sale to Silver Lake and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
• Foley Trasimene Acquisition Corp. in its $7.3 billion “UP-C” combination with Alight Solutions
• Advent International in its $6 billion sale of Culligan International to BDT Capital Partners
• Canopy Growth Corporation in its arrangement to acquire Acreage Holdings for $3.4 billion
• Fieldwood Energy in connection with its Chapter 11 bankruptcy and $1 billion asset sale to QuarterNorth Energy Holding, Inc.
• Goldman Sachs in its $360 million acquisition of Cprime
• Deep Roots Holdings in its acquisition by Vireo Growth in a tax-deferred reorganization valued at $132.7 million
• Bain Capital in its sale of a portfolio company for $130 million
• RIV Capital in its business combination with Cansortium
• Anchor Health Properties in its joint venture with the Stepstone Group
• Berkshire Partners in the restructuring and partial sale of Parts Town to Leonard Green & Partners

*Includes matters handled prior to joining Berkowitz, Trager & Trager.