Matthew Tippett

Matthew Tippett is a tax lawyer and business advisor who treats his clients’ needs and budgets as if they were his own. Matt provides sophisticated commercial advice on a 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 and “qualified small business stock” considerations.

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. Matt received his B.S. in Finance from Colorado State University.

Prior to joining Berkowitz, Trager & Trager, Matt was a tax associate in the New York offices of Paul Hastings LLP, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, and Goodwin Procter LLP.

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
• Pending admission in 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
• 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.