Matthew Hart

Matt Hart is Senior Counsel in Simpson Thacher’s Capital Markets Practice. Based in the Firm’s Houston office, Matt concentrates on domestic and international corporate finance matters. He advises clients on equity, equity-linked and debt securities offerings, as well as corporate restructurings, with a particular focus on equity-linked and high-yield offerings. Matt also regularly represents financial institutions and issuers on an array of complex corporate transactions.

His work spans a wide variety of industries, particularly across the energy, healthcare and technology sectors.

Matt’s representations include:

• Commvault in its $900 million convertible senior notes offering
• Bruker Corporation in its $690 million mandatory convertible preferred stock offering
• Intuitive Machines Inc. in its $345 million convertible senior notes offering
• Alibaba Group in over $9.5 billon of equity-linked bonds
• Underwriters in a $1.0 billion offering of common stock, pre-funded warrants and warrants by IonQ
• GDS in its $700 million in concurrent convertible senior notes and ADS offerings
• Initial purchasers in DoorDash’s debut $2.75 billion convertible senior notes offering
• Axon in its $1.75 billion senior notes offering and private exchanges of convertible notes
• Initial purchasers in Hertz Corporation’s $1.4 billion of high yield and equity-linked notes offerings
• Financial institutions in a committed financing for Amphenol Corporation’s proposed acquisition of CommScope’s connectivity and cable solutions business
• Avianca in its $2.1 billion secured high yield refinancing
• Finance of America in connection with its exchange offer and consent solicitation, including issuance of $147 million aggregate principal amount of senior secured exchangeable notes
• Private capital financing sources in a $100 million secured debt financing supporting the acquisition of Moreld by McIntyre Partners and a $225 million secured debt financing supporting the acquisition by Moreld of Ocean Installer
• Progress Software in its $450 million convertible notes offering
• NOVA Chemicals inc. in $1.5 billion of financings
• Initial purchasers on convertible notes offerings for AMC Networks, Astronics, Avnet, Cheesecake Factory, Cohu, EQT Corporation, Macom, Sphere Entertainment and Verint Systems
• Underwriters in multiple offerings of senior and subordinated debt of CVS Health
• Essential Utilities in equity and debt financing transactions raising more than $5 billion
• Various equity and equity-linked financings for American Electric Power
• Financing sources and initial purchasers in TechnipFMC’s $1.85 billion committed debt financing and $1 billion debut high yield notes offering, in connection with TechnipFMC’s spinoff of Technip Energies
• Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners in the sale of Hygo Energy Transition to New Fortress Energy
• Issuers and initial purchasers in high yield debt offerings for Ascent Resources, VNET, Callon Petroleum, Centennial Resource Production, Central Garden and Pet, Doosan Bobcat, GMR, SBA Communications, Sinclair, Smyrna, Superior Energy Services, TPC, Teine Energy, UGI and Veritas

Matt clerked for the Hon. Carolyn D. King of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He received his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was a member of Order of the Coif and an editor of the Law Review. Matt earned his M.A. in Applied Economics in 2006 and B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 2004 from The Johns Hopkins University. Matt served on the City of West University Place, Texas, city council from 2023 to 2025, and he has taught as an adjunct professor of secured financing at the University of Houston Law Center. He is admitted to practice in Texas and New York.