Matthew Yeowart
Advises on competition and FDI screening aspects of M&A, antitrust and subsidy control. Guides clients in securing global clearances for complex transactions.
Matt leads our London antitrust team, with extensive experience advising on complex, high-profile global, U.K. and EU merger control and foreign direct investment reviews, foreign subsidy control, cartel and abuse of dominance cases. He represents clients in cases before the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, the European Commission and the U.K. Investment Security Unit and develops strategies for obtaining transaction clearances across international jurisdictions. He has also advised clients in relation to proceedings before the European Courts, the U.K. Competition Appeal Tribunal and the U.K. High Court.
Matt regularly advises clients active across numerous sectors, including consumer goods, agrochemicals, aviation, pharmaceuticals, oil and gas, automotive, tech, media, healthcare and industrials and specialty chemicals. He is recognized as a global thought leader in competition by Who’s Who Legal and a rising star and top antitrust lawyer in EMEA by MergerLinks.
Experience
- Altair Engineering on its $10.6 billion acquisition by Siemens
- Arcadium Lithium on its $6.7 billion acquisition by Rio Tinto
- Cadeler on its $597 million combination with Eneti
- Clarivate Analytics on its:
- $6.8 billion combination with CPA Global
- $5.3 billion acquisition of ProQuest
- $950 million acquisition of Decision Resources Group
- Comcast on matters including its:
- eSports joint venture with SK Telecom
- Acquisition of DreamWorks
- Coreweave on its:
- $9 billion acquisition of Core Scientific
- acquisition of Monolith AI
- acquisition of Weights and Biases
- Emerson on its:
- $11 billion acquisition of Aspen Technology
- $14 billion sale of Climate Technologies to Blackstone
- $8.2 billion acquisition of National Instruments
- Fibria on its $11 billion sale to Suzano
- Gilead Sciences on its $21 billion acquisition of Immunomedics
- Global mining company on its sale of a majority stake in the world’s second-largest copper mine to the Indonesian state
- Ingersoll Rand on the $15 billion merger of its industrial segment with Gardner Denver
- Lucid Motors on its strategic supply agreement with and minority investment in Aston Martin
- Maersk on its disposal of Maersk Oil to Total
- Natura on its:
- $2.52 billion sale of Aesop to L’Oréal
- $2 billion acquisition of Avon Products
- $1 billion acquisition of The Body Shop
- Nippon Paint on its $2.3 billion acquisition of AOC from Lone Star Funds
- Ocado Group on its acquisition of 6 River Systems
- Qorvo on its $22 billion combination with Skyworks Solutions
- Semrush Holdings on its sale to Adobe
- Shire on the sale of its oncology business to Servier and related aspects of its takeover by Takeda Pharmaceutical
- SS&C Technologies on its approximately $1.03 billion (£766 million) acquisition of Calastone from Carlyle
- State Street on its $3.5 billion proposed acquisition of Brown Brothers Harriman’s Investor Services business
- Sycamore Partners on its up to $23.7 billion acquisition of Walgreens Boots Alliance
- Taboola on its proposed merger with Outbrain
- Tencent on its:
- £919 million recommended cash offer to acquire Sumo Group
- Minority investment in Universal Music Group
- Minority investment in Ubisoft
- Traton on its $3.7 billion acquisition of Navistar
- Various clients on ongoing U.K. Competition and Markets Authority and European Commission investigations and market studies
Insights
News
Recognition
“Pro Bono Recognition List of England & Wales,” 2024
MergerLinks – “Rising Stars: Top Antitrust Lawyers in EMEA,” 2023
Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal) – Competition: Under 45 Non Partners, Global Elite Thought Leader
Education
- with distinction
- Sidney Sussex College
- first-class honours
- Exeter College
- Quelch and Lelio Stampa Prizes
Prior experience
- Associate, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton (Brussels), 2015
- Associate, Slaughter and May (London), 2013
Qualifications and admissions
- Brussels B-List
- England and Wales