Matthew Mao’s practice focuses on debt financings and other corporate transactions.

He brings a wealth of experience as in-house counsel at several organizations, most recently for Fanatics, a licensed sports apparel, collectibles, and gaming company, where he led financings and covered a wide scope of corporate matters as Senior Vice President, Legal. Beforehand, he also served as Senior Legal Director, Corporate Transactions, for Hillspire as well as Vice President, Legal, at MacAndrews & Forbes, where he advised on a variety of corporate transactions, including acquisitions, equity investments, debt financings, and liability management transactions.

Matt originally joined Cleary Gottlieb in 2010 as an associate and moved in-house in 2018. In July 2024, he rejoined the firm as a partner.

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Notable Experience

  • Hygiena, a leading food safety diagnostics products and environmental sanitation testing manufacturer, in the refinancing of its existing term loans and the incurrence of new incremental term loans and new delayed draw term loan credit facilities.

  • Endurance International Group Holdings, a leading provider of web services to small-and medium-sized businesses, in the prior extension and refinancing of its existing credit facilities.

  • Vericast, a leading marketing technology partner for businesses, in connection with prior refinancings of its credit facilities and senior notes, and its acquisitions of MaxPoint and RetailMeNot.

  • Warburg Pincus in connection with the financings of its acquisitions of CityMD, Labstat, Gabriel Brothers, and Hygiena.

  • Medtronic, a global medical technology company, in connection with the financing for its $42.9 billion acquisition of Covidien.

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