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Matt S. Kiel

Conseiller principal

Matt S. Kiel

Conseiller principal

Matt Kiel is a senior counsel with Foley & Lardner LLP. He is also a member of the firm’s Transactions Practice Group and primarily focuses on mergers and acquisitions.

Matt has experience representing issuers and underwriters in all aspects of corporate finance and capital markets transactions, including private offerings of equity and debt, buy-side and sell-side M&A transactions, strategic investments, and corporate restructuring transactions.

Matt represents public and private companies in acquisition and sale transactions across industry verticals, including in the technology, aerospace, manufacturing, and food and beverage sectors. Matt also represents domestic and foreign private equity firms and their portfolio companies in the acquisition, sale, and expansion of platform companies and bolt-on assets.

Matt’s client base includes private capital investors, technology platforms, project developers, and operators across the energy industry, including in the development, operation, and sale of hydrogen, lithium ion, long-duration, and flexible energy storage facilities, O&M services companies, and solar and wind projects.

Matt serves clients in the alcoholic beverage sector, as well as in the consumer packaged goods, food and beverage, and other consumer product focused verticals. In addition to specializing in M&A and financing transactions in these sectors, Matt has also helped alcoholic beverage clients in TTB Federal licensing, COLA application and approval, State-level licensing, Tied-House compliance, and advertising and marketing compliance.

Engagement communautaire

  • Matt serves on the firm’s national recruiting committee. Matt is also a member of the firm’s Los Angeles office Boys & Girls Club board.
  • Matt is a member on the associate leadership board of Public Counsel, the nation’s largest pro bono law firm. He has served numerous clients through Public Counsel’s Federal Pro Se Clinic, where he advised underrepresented, indigent, and disenfranchised pro se litigants navigating the federal court system.
September 19, 2025 Honors and Awards

Matt Kiel Named Emerging Leader of the Year at Los Angeles Business Journal M&A Awards

Foley & Lardner LLP senior counsel Matt Kiel was named the Emerging Leader of the Year honoree at Los Angeles Business Journal's 2025 M&A Awards.
Le 16 janvier 2024 Communiqués de presse

Le bureau de Foley à Los Angeles organise un programme de droit de la rue en partenariat avec les Boys & Girls Clubs

Le bureau de Foley & Lardner LLP à Los Angeles s'est récemment associé aux Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Los Angeles à South Central et au Los Angeles Boys & Girls Club à Lincoln Heights pour un deuxième programme Street Law.
November 10, 2023 Deals and Wins

Foley Advises Source Logistics in Acquisition by Palladium Equity

Foley & Lardner LLP served as legal advisor to Source Logistics, a provider of value-added warehousing, distribution, and fulfillment third-party logistics services to the consumer goods sector with a focus on Hispanic food and beverage brands, as private equity firm Palladium Equity Partners acquired a majority stake in the company.
31 octobre 2022 Accords et victoires

Foley Serves as Legal Adviser to MMGY Global in Acquisition of Wagstaff Media & Marketing

Foley & Lardner LLP served as legal adviser to MMGY Global, LLC, a Peninsula Fund company, in its recent acquisition of Wagstaff Media & Marketing, a leading integrated public relations and marketing agency specializing in the travel, culinary, and hospitality lifestyle industries.
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18 juillet 2022 Livres blancs

Mise à jour semestrielle sur le cannabis 2022

Dans un contexte d'inflation record et d'incertitude quant à l'issue des problèmes géopolitiques qui agitent les marchés mondiaux, l'industrie du cannabis est restée imperturbable.
August 3, 2021 Press Releases

Foley & Lardner Advises CUNA Mutual Group in $1.35B Purchase of Assurant’s Global Preneed Business

Foley & Lardner LLP acted as legal counsel to CUNA Mutual Group, a broad financial services provider, in its acquisition of Global Preneed, a prearranged funeral insurance and final expense business, from Assurant, Inc. for approximately $1.35 billion in cash, which closed on August 2, 2021.