Matthew G.
Jones

Mr. Jones’s corporate clients have included Booking Holdings, Brightline, British American Tobacco, Brunswick, Cable One, Conduent, Cox Communications, Crown Castle, DHT, Eurazeo, FactSet, Fortress Transportation & Infrastructure Investors, Frontier Communications, Johnson & Johnson, Kenvue, Martin Marietta, New Fortress Energy, New Media, Roivant Sciences, Stanley Black & Decker, Toll Brothers, Viatris and ZimVie.

Mr. Jones’s notable transactions include representing:

• Frontier Communications in its pending $20 billion acquisition by Verizon and its $1.352 billion sale of operations in Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington to WaveDivision Capital in partnership with Searchlight;
• Rock-Tenn in its $16 billion combination with MeadWestvaco;

• Cano Health shareholders, including members of management, in the $4.4 billion SPAC merger with Jaws Acquisition Corp., including an $800 million PIPE investment;

• Johnson & Johnson in its $3.4 billion acquisition of Auris Health and the $2.8 billion sale of its Advanced Sterilization Products business to Fortive;

• Martin Marietta in its $2.05 billion acquisition of aggregates operations from Blue Water Industries, its acquisition of Premier Magnesia and its pending exchange of certain assets with Quikrete;

• New Media in its $1.4 billion acquisition of Gannett;

• ZimVie in its pending $730 million acquisition by ARCHIMED and the $375 million sale of its spine business to H.I.G. Capital;

• Brunswick in the $490 million sale of its Fitness business to KPS;

• Brightline in its acquisition of XpressWest;

• Conduent in the sale of its U.S.‑based human resource consulting and actuarial business to H.I.G. Capital;

• Eurazeo in its majority investment in WorldStrides;

• Fortress in Nationstar Mortgage’s merger with WMIH; and

• Roivant Sciences in its Strategic Alliance with Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma.

Mr. Jones has been recognized by The Legal 500 US and has been named to the Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation list.

Mr. Jones is from Wilmington, Delaware. He received a B.A. with distinction in all subjects from Cornell University in 2010 and a J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2013, where he was a James Kent Scholar, a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and served as a Senior Editor of the Law Review.

Mr. Jones joined Cravath in 2013 and was elected a partner in 2020.