Houston corporate finance partner Matthew Jones has departed Latham & Watkins for Jones Day, the firm announced this week.
Jones represents public and private borrowers, private equity sponsors and lenders in complex financing transactions, with a particular focus on advising clients in the oil and gas and other commodity industries. He also helps clients navigate forbearance, workout and bankruptcy matters.
“Having advised private equity sponsors, borrowers and lenders across Texas and elsewhere in the creation of numerous financing structures to get deals done, including multiple transactions in excess of $1 billion, Matthew’s experience adds to our deep capabilities in Houston and we look forward to working with him,” Lyle Ganske, partner-in-charge of Jones Day’s Houston office, said in a statement.
In the first quarter of this year alone, Jones was on the Latham deal teams that advised Equitrans Midstream on its $5.5 billion all-stock merger with EQT, counseled Enerplus on its $4.2 billion sale to Chord Energy, and guided CenterPoint in the shedding of $1.2 billion in natural gas assets to Bernhard Capital.
Jones, who received his law degree from Northwestern University, also aided Occidental in its $12 billion acquisition of CrownRock in December and TechnipFMC in the company’s sale of its measurement solutions business to One Equity Partners for $205 million in November.