John specialises in corporate law and has a broad corporate and commercial practice including advising upon domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, venture capital, private equity, corporate reorganisations, corporate governance and commercial advice and contracts both for Irish and international clients. He also deals extensively with overseas clients and counsel on the establishment of business operations in Ireland both by acquisition and start-up. John previously worked with an international firm in London. In 2000 and 2001 he headed up our New York office, of which he continues to be the partner responsible. John was based in our London office from late 2001 to 2005 (heading up the office from 2003 to 2005). | Practice Areas |
John has recently been involved in the following transactions:
- Lead corporate partner acting for the Willis Group with respect to its corporate migration from Bermuda to Ireland
- Acting for the shareholders of mTLD Top Level Domain Limited (Vodafone, Microsoft, Nokia, Google, Visa, Ericsson, Samsung, Deutsche Telekom, Telecom Italia and others) with respect to its sale to Afilias Limited
- Acting for the National Treasury Management Agency with respect to the recapitalisation of Bank of Ireland
- Acting for Blackrock Inc with respect to the restructuring of the EMPG Group
- Acting for Mastercard on the acquisition of Orbiscom Limited
- Acting for Wolters Kluwer on the acquisition of Ci-3 Consultancy Limited
- Acting for Reox Holdings plc on the sale of its consumer foods division to Kerry Group plc
- Lead partner for Wachovia Bank on the establishment of its Irish operations
- Acting for Qualcomm Inc. on the acquisition of Xiam Technologies Limited
- Acting for Kedco plc on the admission of its ordinary shares to AIM
- Acting for Alchemy Partners in the acquisition of the A-Wear Group
- Acting for the management team in the MBO of Meridian VAT Reclaim Operations Limited from PRG-Schultz International Inc
- Acting for Texas Pacific Group in the Irish aspects of the acquisition of the Transfusion Therapies Business of Baxter
- Acting for Fyffes plc in the demerger of its General Produce and Distribution business into Total Produce plc and the consequent listing of Total Produce plc on the IEX and AIM markets
- Acting for Dairygold Co-operative Society Limited on the demerger and spin-off of its property and other non-core interests into Reox Holdings plc
- Acting for Broadbeam Corporation in its merger with Mobile Aware Limited
- Acting for Nvidia Inc in the acquisition of the assets of Pace Soft Silicon Ltd
- Acting for Stratos Global Corporation on the financing of the acquisition of Xantic
Education
- HDBS, 1993, Smurfit Graduate School of Business, University College, Dublin
- BCL, 1992, University College, Cork
Professional
- Admitted to the New York Bar, 1999
- Admitted as a solicitor, 1996
Memberships
- The Bar Association of the City of New York
- The American Bar Association
- The Irish Chamber of Commerce in the U.S.
Contact MeJohn Matson
Partner
Arthur Cox
Earlsfort Centre
Earlsfort Terrace
Dublin 2
Ireland
t: +353 (0)1 618 0510