Matt Bergerud advises private equity sponsors, strategic investors, and companies on complex domestic and cross-border transactions, with particular experience across the sports, media, entertainment, and technology sectors.
Matt spent time on secondment to the National Basketball Association (NBA) in 2025, providing in-house legal support on a broad range of commercial, media, and strategic matters.
Matt's practice focuses on M&A and private equity transactions. He advises international and domestic private equity sponsors, financial investors, and corporates on acquisitions, disposals, leveraged buyouts, takeovers, mergers, joint ventures, minority and growth capital investments, and restructurings.
Prior to joining Clifford Chance, Matt served as Head of the Corporate Legal Department for Sitecore Corporation and as Founder and Managing Director of GIST Corporation.
- Sela on its launch of a boxing promotion platform with HE Turki Alalshikh and TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO)
- BlackRock on its launch of Easttree Media, an investment platform established to acquire income rights in iconic films and television shows
- BlackRock, in collaboration with Influence Media Partners, on its agreement to acquire assets of Anthem Entertainment's music publishing catalogs and related assets for over US$600 million
- Launch of the Soccer Champions Tour, a series of matches featuring six of the world's most prestigious football clubs and played across the United States and backed by global investment firm, Sixth Street
- NBA on its multi-year partnership with Amazon Web Services to deliver digital fan content and live broadcast services across the NBA and its franchises
- Avedon Capital Partners on the acquisition of Atlas NextWave in partnership with the management team
- CVC Capital Partners on its investment in Airalo, a leading global eSIM marketplace
- Airbus on its sale of Metron Aviation to Stratify Aerospace
- Retail Opportunity Investments Corp. in connection with its US$4 billion merger and acquisition by affiliates of Blackstone
- Medline Industries on its acquisition of a medical skin-care business from a European manufacturer of medical devices
- EQT on the acquisition of a majority stake in AMCS, a supplier of cloud-based and AI‑enabled planning, performance, and sustainability focused software for waste management, recycling and other resource‑intensive industries
- EQT on key deal terms affecting bolt-on M&A and with associated capital raises to fund their global expansion projects for Sitecore
- EQT on corporate compliance matters such as UBO, KYC, audit, and equity program requests
- KKR on its strategic partnership with Carlyle to acquire an approximately US$10.1 billion portfolio of prime student loans from Discover Financial Services
- Aligned Climate Capital on its acquisition and financing of a portfolio of co-located EV charging, battery storage, and solar PV projects in California with expansion opportunities around the US
- Aligned Climate Capital on its acquisition of certain solar energy assets from the Gray Pen Group
- Leading the establishment of corporate organizational subsidiaries in new markets across the globe
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Contact details
- Clifford Chance, Washington, DC
- +12029125532
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