Matthew M.
Kelly

Mr. Kelly’s notable banking and finance deals include advising:

• Olin in its $1.375 billion term loan facility and $600 million revolving credit facility;
• Argo Group, an affiliate of Brookfield, in its $750 million term loan facility;
• Lindsay Goldberg in $505 million of credit facilities to finance the acquisition of The Kleinfelder Group;

• NSM Insurance in $161 million of credit facilities to finance its acquisition of Fresh Insurance Services;

• Florida East Coast Industries in its term loan facility;

• the agent and arranger in an aggregate of $11.54 billion of term loan facilities made available to TransDigm;

• the agent and arranger in a $2.75 billion revolving credit facility made available to Goodyear to finance its acquisition of Cooper Tire & Rubber;

• the agent and arranger in an aggregate of $5.54 billion of term loan facilities made available to Axalta;

• the agent and arranger in a $1.5 billion senior secured revolving credit facility made available to Alcoa;

• the agent and arranger in $1.125 billion of incremental term loans made available to Bright Horizons;

• the agent and arranger in $890 million of credit facilities made available to Frontdoor;

• the agent and arranger in $750 million of credit facilities made available to MSG National Properties;

• the agent and arranger in $660 million of credit facilities made available to American Seafoods Group, an affiliate of Bregal Partners;

• the agent and arranger in $355 million of credit facilities made available to affiliates of Silver Lake to finance its acquisition of Weld North Education;

• the agent and arranger in $350 million of credit facilities made available to PS HoldCo, an affiliate of One Equity Partners, to finance its acquisition of PS Logistics; and

• the agent and arranger in $270 million of credit facilities made available in connection with EQT’s acquisition of Certara.

Mr. Kelly has been recognized by Lawdragon as among the “500 Leading Dealmakers in America” and the “500 X – The Next Generation” and by The Legal 500 US for commercial lending.

Mr. Kelly is from New York, New York. He received an A.B. cum laude from Dartmouth College in 2006 and a J.D. magna cum laude from New York University School of Law in 2013, where he was a John Norton Pomeroy Scholar, a Benjamin Butler Scholar, a Notes Editor of the Law Review, Managing Editor of The Commentator, a recipient of the Law Review Alumni Association Award and elected to the Order of the Coif.

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