Matthew S. Lovell, P.C.
Overview
Matt Lovell is a partner in Kirkland’s Technology & IP Transactions group, serving as lead counsel on transactions of various types where technology assets or aspects are core deal drivers.
Matt’s over two-decade legal career has overlapped with a significant period of technological innovation, which has been accompanied by corresponding changes to the law, introduction of new deal types and opportunities, and increasing importance of technology and intangible assets to deals of all types. He has worked on transformative deals in a variety of industries and across a variety of deal types, including hundreds of tech-focused M&A deals, over a hundred carveout transactions in a variety of industries, and numerous license transactions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, and outsourcing and IT services engagements. In addition, Matt takes a leading technology and IP role on restructurings, bankruptcies, and third-party financing and direct lending transactions.
Matt is often called into situations where innovative thinking and alternatives are required, combining knowledge and experience across a wide range of technology and deal types to offer creative yet commercial counseling and deal structuring, negotiation, and execution. In addition to focusing on technology aspects of M&A deals and working on licensing and other tech-focused transactions, Matt also leads teams from the Technology & IP Transactions group in handling separation aspects of carveout transactions, including transition services agreements, license agreements, supply agreements, and other commercial arrangements.
Matt was recognized by The Legal 500 United States 2021–2024 in the area of “Technology: Transactions.”