Matthew Eccles
Senior Associate
Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
Related services and key industries
Key industry sectors
Biography
Matt Eccles is a corporate lawyer based in London.
Matt's practice focuses on cross-border and emerging market transactions across a broad range of sectors including energy, mining, infrastructure, transport, financial institutions and TMT. His clients include private equity and strategic investors and major corporations. He advises on a wide variety of corporate transactions, including domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, joint ventures, private equity investments and exits and general corporate advisory work.
Matt joined the firm in 2013. He has undertaken secondments with Citibank and the UK's DFI, CDC Group Plc.
Professional experience
Collapse allMA (Cantab), University of Cambridge, 2011
Graduate Diploma in Law, BPP Law School, 2012
Accelerated Legal Practice Course, BPP Law School, 2013
- Solicitor qualified in England & Wales
Advising:
- Trident Trust Bank – on its acquisition of Union Bank of Nigeria
- BP plc – on its Brazilian biofuels joint venture with US agri-commodities company Bunge; and on its $2.6bn disposal of a 20 percent interest in Oman's Block 61 to PTTEP
- Development Partners International, African Infrastructure Investment Managers, CDC Group plc, Orange and Vodacom – on various investments and exits in Africa
- TOMS Capital, Macquarie Group, Bombardier and Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners - on various UK and Europe transactions.