Overview

Matthew Dunnet, who practises as Matt Dunnet, is a corporate partner in Kirkland & Ellis LLP's Bay Area office in San Francisco. His mergers and acquisitions practice focuses on representing private equity funds and their portfolio companies in a range of transactions. He advises on leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, company and asset sales, minority investments, restructurings and related financings. Before joining Kirkland, Matt was a senior associate at a leading global law firm, where he worked on both public and private mergers and acquisitions, capital markets matters, corporate governance and general corporate issues. He is admitted in California and Ontario, providing official credentials that connect his current United States practice with his prior Canadian career. Matt earned his JD from the University of Windsor and holds both master's and bachelor's degrees from Western University. Kirkland's current profile identifies him as a partner and lists mergers and acquisitions, private equity and transactional work as his principal practices.

Practice Areas

• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Private Equity
• Corporate Transactions

Bar Information

Called to the bar: 2014 (ON)