Citybiz Guest Host: Sean Davis Interviews Matthew E. Pecoy, Partner at DarrowEverett

Matthew E. Pecoy is a Partner in DarrowEverett’s Corporate and Business Transactions Practice Group, focusing primarily on middle-market mergers and acquisitions, private equity, venture capital, and general corporate matters. Through his practice, Matt represents a broad spectrum of clients, ranging from accredited investors to growth-stage companies and from start-ups to medium-sized, privately-held businesses. His counsel includes corporate formation and structuring, capital raises and private placements, employment and securities law issues, and complex commercial contract negotiation. Matt also serves as outside general counsel to several companies across multiple industries and has litigated a wide variety of commercial disputes before federal and state courts as well as the South Carolina Supreme Court.

Before joining the DarrowEverett team, Matt was a partner in a Charleston, South Carolina-based firm. In this role, Matt counseled his clients from formation and capital raising to liquidity events, represented both buyers and sellers in a variety of mergers and acquisitions, and litigated trade secret, noncompete, and other business disputes. While attending the University of South Carolina School of Law, Matt was the Articles Editor for the Southeastern Environmental Law Journal.

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Interview Questions:

Q1. Tell us about yourself, why you got into law and what drives you outside of work?

Q2. Tell us a little bit about DarrowEverett and your M&A practice?

Q3. What types of M&A deals have you worked on in the past?

Q4. What do you consider the most challenging aspect of M&A transactions, and how do you navigate it?

Q5. How do you approach due diligence in M&A transactions to ensure comprehensive risk assessment?

Q6. How do you manage client expectations throughout the M&A process, especially during negotiations?

Q7. Liquidity events are probably the most exciting things for founders to undergo. As you take clients through that process, what reminders do you share with those sell-side clients?

Q8. Acquisitions are right up there too for founders because they’re getting bigger and better. What reminders do you have for buy-side clients?

DarrowEverett LLP is a full-service business law firm with offices in Boston, Mass., Providence, R.I., New York, N.Y., Nashville, Tenn., Charlotte, N.C., Charleston, S.C., and Miami, Fla. The firm offers a diversity of services, including corporate & business transactions, commercial real estate, business litigation & dispute resolution, banking & finance, energy & infrastructure, data privacy & cybersecurity, environmental, government investigations, healthcare & life sciences, intellectual property & technology, labor & employment, private equity, capital markets & securities, private wealth services, regulatory & compliance, restructuring, and tax. In addition, DarrowEverett serves a wide range of domestic & international publicly traded and privately held companies, and nonprofit organizations. To learn more, visit www.darroweverett.com.

Mr. Sean Davis is the Founder and Managing Partner of Merton Capital Partners. Merton advises on investing philanthropy alongside Fortune 500 companies to solve significant social and environmental issues. He started his career with J.P. Morgan in New York and then joined Advent International, a leader in international private equity, helping to develop its office in Brazil. Mr. Davis then joined Saratoga Partners in New York and was dedicated to leverage buyout opportunities and restructurings. Mr. Davis was recently the Development Director for The Salvation Army of Palm Beach County, where he was focused on creating a bold growth plan to solve the problem that almost half the children in the County fail to read a third-grade level.

Mr. Davis was raised in Colombia and Argentina and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and from The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He also has an MBA from the London Business School. Mr. Davis is an advisor to various nonprofits and the author of Solving the Giving Pledge Bottleneck, a Top 12 Forbes Must Have Books and Podcasts For Leaders In 2023. Mr. Davis is also an Adjunct Professor at Palm Beach Atlantic University in their Masters in International Development.

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