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Matthew Gorman

'a very seasoned lawyer' who 'combines technical capability with a commercial approach' Asia Legal 500

Partner, Corporate Finance
Singapore

Expertise

Matthew is a senior transactional lawyer based in Addleshaw Goddard’s Singapore office. He has been an international law firm partner since 2007 and has over 20 years of transactional experience across a range of corporate and commercial disciplines including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, equity capital markets and private equity and venture capital.

Matthew has considerable experience and expertise across a number of industry sectors including energy and infrastructure, transport and logistics and technology, media and entertainment. His clients include MNCs, SMEs, sponsors, banks, private equity and venture capital firms and family offices.

The majority of Matthew’s work is cross-border and his experience covers a wide range of jurisdictions in the wider Asia Pacific region including markets such as Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand, the Philippines, Taiwan, Australia, Hong Kong, China and Kazakhstan. Prior to moving to Asia in 2007, Matthew worked for over 10 years in London from where he worked on numerous international projects in markets including the USA, Oman, Georgia, Scandinavia and the Caribbean.

Matthew has been recognised by Chambers Asia as a Leading Individual in both the Corporate/M&A and Capital Markets categories and is described by Asia Legal 500 as 'a very seasoned lawyer' who 'combines technical capability with a commercial approach'. He has also been recognised in the A-list of Singapore’s top 100 lawyers by Asia Business Law Journal. Matthew joined Addleshaw Goddard in 2024.

Experience

Recent experience includes:

Advised AT Capital, a Singapore based single family office, on the sale of Orange Renewable Holdings (Orange) to Greenko. Orange, which had an enterprise value of circa US$1 billion, owned and operated a portfolio of wind and solar assets in India with an aggregate generating capacity of over 750MW and a pipeline of around 1.8GW of future projects under development.
Advised Moonbug Entertainment – a Candle Media company – on its acquisition of Singapore-based animation studio One Animation. Through the acquisition, Moonbug took over the production and creativity behind the studio’s hugely popular, three-time Emmy-nominated series Oddbods - a dialogue-free comedy show for kids which has broadcast in more than 180 countries. The show’s YouTube channels have accumulated a combined 24 billion views, 32 million subscribers, and average 350 million views each month.
Advised Venus Airport Investments on the US$415 million sale of Almaty International Airport and its related catering and jet fuel businesses to a consortium comprising strategic airports operator TAV Airports (listed on the Istanbul Stock Exchange) and private equity investor VPE Capital. The buyer consortium was partially funded by the IFC and the EBRD, and the acquisition was part of a planned US$200 million redevelopment of Almaty Airport to double its capacity to 14 million passengers annually.
Advised Puma Energy, a multinational mid- and downstream oil company, majority-owned by Trafigura and the Sonangol Group, specialising in the supply, storage, refining, distribution, and retail of a range of petroleum products, on its joint venture with Gearbulk to operate a pool of high heat tankers specialising in the shipment of bitumen and related products.
Advised Avenue Capital, a credit fund focusing on distressed securities and private equity in the US, Europe and Asia, on its investment in a South East Asian water treatment and supply business and related joint venture arrangements.

Education