Matthew S. Strumph

• Represented a national home health and hospice provider in its $5.4 billion merger with one of the world’s largest health insurance companies.
• Represented a publicly held packaging company in its $1.8 billion acquisition of a consumer packaging business from the country’s largest pulp and paper company.
• Represented leading international investment banks in several public offerings of debt and related debt tender offers by the world’s best-known beverage company with aggregate proceeds totaling more than $7 billion.
• Represented a private equity firm and its portfolio company in its $255 million acquisition of a workforce solutions company.
• Represented a publicly held packaging company in half a dozen acquisitions and dispositions in North America.
• Represented one of the leading U.S. food distributors in a $145 million strategic acquisition.
• Represented the world’s largest and best-known home improvement retailer in multiple public debt offerings with aggregate proceeds totaling more than $3 billion.
• Represented an Atlanta-based bank in its IPO.
• Represented a leading flooring manufacturing company in multiple debt offerings with aggregate proceeds totaling more than $1.6 billion.
• Represented a publicly held medical device company in a $710 million carve-out of its surgical and infection prevention business.

Matt Strumph is a senior associate in Alston & Bird’s Corporate & Business Transactions Group. He focuses his practice on the representation of both public and private companies in complex strategic transactions including mergers and acquisitions, and carve-out transactions. Matt also has significant experience advising issuers and investment banking firms in public offerings and private placements of debt and equity securities. Matt also counsels companies on corporate governance and compliance matters, including periodic reporting and correspondence with the SEC.

Matt is recognized by The Best Lawyers in America^® “Ones to Watch” for Securities / Capital Markets Law.

Bar Admissions

• Georgia

Education

• University of Virginia (J.D., 2016)
• Duke University (B.A., 2013)