Matthew Williams
Matt is a Partner in the Banking & Finance team at Taylor Wessing. Matt specialises in credit M&A transactions including loan trading and distribution, portfolio sales (both performing and non-performing), balance sheet transactions for financial institutions as well as buy-side participants and loan servicers in the secondary loan market and other types of structured receivables transactions.
Prior to his role at Taylor Wessing, Matt worked in the finance and restructuring team at a leading international law firm where he advised on distressed debt, structured finance and special situations.
Prior to that, Matt was a corporate banker at a UK bank, responsible for the design and execution of balance sheet deleveraging activities and regulatory capital solutions, and latterly the commercial lead for loan distribution and demand led origination.
Matt has acted on some of Europe's largest NPE/NPL transactions (buy and sell side) in both a commercial and legal capacity to an aggregate gross book value in excess of £50bn. These transactions include the strategic withdrawal by a UK bank from Ireland, Portugal and Spain and the first ever Cypriot NPE loan portfolio sale.
Matt has represented many other UK banks across a wide range of asset class disposals (in both debt and equity), driven by deleveraging and regulatory capital considerations, such as shipping, CRE, infrastructure and corporate lending.