UNBIASED ADVICE
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About Us
Our goal is to make our clients the most informed participants in the capital markets.
INDEPENDENT ADVICE
Matthews South is an independent advisory + software firm that is transforming the way public and private companies make capital markets decisions. Our team provides independent, unbiased advice that is truly aligned with our clients’ objectives.
DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH
Our clients use our advice and analytics to make data-driven, quantitatively informed decisions. This approach leads to greater transparency, better outcomes, and lower transaction costs.
NO BIAS
Matthews South aims to provide unbiased advice, suited to your specific needs. We have no commercial relationships with any banks or buyside accounts.
Our Solutions
We provide holistic capital markets advice to private and public companies across the capital structure:
Our Clients
We apply our integrated advisory and software solution across a diverse client base by industry and size. To date, Matthews South has advised clients in the Technology, Healthcare, Industrial, Airline, Clean Energy and Financial sectors. Our clients range in revenue from $100 million to $60 billion and market capitalization from $500 million to $400 billion. While our clients may be varied, they are all alike in their belief that our advisory services enabled them to make better decisions about their capital markets transactions and achieve better outcomes.
Testimonials
“Matthews South was instrumental in the execution of our capital return program that included a privately negotiated buyback and Matthews South’s eOMR. They helped us with fair value analysis of the various private buyback structures, which informed and empowered our negotiations. Matthews South flawlessly executed our eOMR achieving a significant VWAP discount. We loved the cost saving in their program because there is no outperformance fee allowing us to retain almost all the VWAP discount generated. Significantly, their program provided the flexibility to work with any broker of our choice. I would also highlight the analytics they provided to help us set the program parameters, the useful detailed weekly reporting while the program was on-going, and the team’s overall responsiveness, all of which allowed my team to learn and grow from the engagement.”
Jonathan Biller
CFO and Head of Corporate Affairs
“Matthews South provided incredible leverage to us in all aspects of the transaction including educating our Board, streamlining the execution process, and guiding us through the syndicate selection and gross spread negotiation process. They organized the process so that we had nearly finalized the documentation before we reached out to the banks. This made the preparation process very efficient and allowed us to get ready to access the market quickly. During the day of execution, Matthews South helped us stay on top of the book building process and pushed the banks to be more aggressive in the pricing of our deal. I would highly recommend Matthews South to any prospective convertible issuer.”
Mark Nelson
CFO
“This was our inaugural ASR and a project that received significant focus internally. We evaluated multiple options for advisors and believe that Matthews South met all our needs with their superb analytics, pricing transparency and a full scope of services. Matthews South’s accounting support was important, engaging alongside us as we discussed the transaction with our auditor, they helped us compile an accounting memo, and ultimately we achieved the desired accounting result. Additionally, we received attractive pricing from the highly effective auction they conducted for us.”
James R. Haddad
Senior Advisor to the Chief Financial Officer
“We wanted unconflicted, expert capital markets advice for our convertible and call spread transaction. These financings are complex. Matthews South helped us with all aspects of the financing including structuring, documentation, convertible accounting, and syndicate strategy. They were invaluable during the fast-moving day of execution in helping us decode the book building process and push for the best pricing terms.”
Thomas Seifert
CFO
“Matthews South provides us with independent, expert capital markets advice. They are truly unconflicted and always have Dolby’s best interests at heart. For the past five years, Matthews South has advised us on the structuring and execution of our open market share repurchase program. Their unique analytics and data-driven approach have definitely helped us improve our results–I am very happy with their services.”
Lewis Chew
Treasurer
“Matthews South advised us on the structuring and execution of our pre-IPO convertible. It was a unique approach that blended our demand for capital with a flexible option to supply the market with shares prior to the lockup expiration. I would highly recommend them.”
Prabir Adarkar
CFO
“Matthews South was a key partner in our inaugural convertible bond offering. The team helped us structure the convertible from start to finish and was valuable to our Board’s evaluation and approval of the transaction. I would especially highlight their work in the pricing process. They provided a differentiated perspective on having a more aggressive launch range that we found persuasive. During the day of execution, Matthews South actively monitored the book of demand, made us aware of our options, and advocated on our behalf to push the banks to achieve the best terms. The aftermarket trading our bonds, around par, confirmed that we were well advised by Matthews South.”
Tim Regan
CFO
“Matthews South is our trusted capital markets advisor. They provide us with corporate finance advice on managing our balance sheet and help us with the structuring and execution of our transactions. Convertible bonds and call spreads are complex instruments. With Matthews South, we feel at ease because they are subject matter experts with our best interests as their priority.”
Rachel Glaser
CFO
“We are glad to have engaged Matthews South as the capital markets advisor on our convertible bond offering. The support they provided on all aspects of the financing (including convertible accounting) lightened the load on my finance team. I would also highlight their work during the day of execution where they helped us understand the order book dynamics and push for better pricing terms. Their efforts helped us get the best possible deal.”
Patrick Nelli
President
“Matthews South added tremendous value for IMAX during our recent convertible offering. They provided dedicated oversight of our process for many weeks before we engaged the banks, and significantly streamlined the efforts of our internal team and external experts. The structuring of our security was especially complex, and Matthews South advised us on key decisions and helped resolve a number of technical difficulties. Finally, their assistance in pricing was indispensable — they helped guide our discussions with the banks in setting the price talk, and throughout the day of execution provided critical input in ensuring we achieved the best terms. Matthews South undoubtedly improved both the process efficiency and economic outcome of our offering.”
Patrick McClymont
CFO
“Our recent $3bn ASR was the first for KLA in 15 years. Matthews South provided expert advice on structuring and documentation at every stage of our ASR planning process. We made informed decisions because their advice was not swayed by conflicts or biases. Equally as important, Matthews South has created a monitoring system that keeps us up to date as this important transaction progresses. We share the daily report within our organization as it has important statistics such as expected completion date, where the stock needs to trade for the ASR to complete early, expected repurchase price and expected counterparty profit. Matthews South’s ASR monitoring is unique and more informational and sophisticated than what we receive from our counterparties.”
Jack Yue
Corporate Treasurer
“Matthews South was our capital markets advisor on the $1bn ASR we executed following the completion of our spin-off of Fortrea Holdings Inc. Although we had previously done an ASR, we engaged Matthews South because the ASR process is opaque and we saw value in having proven experts on our side. Matthews South helped us structure our ASR and negotiate a discount that was fair for us and our banking partners executing the ASR. Their structuring process is unlike anything I have seen from other providers and we felt fully informed of what our options were. In addition, the Matthews South team upgraded our documentation to have the latest company protections. It was invaluable for our team to be able to lean on Matthews South throughout this process.”
Thomas Kremer
SVP – Tax, Treasury & Risk Management
“The Matthews South team helped us make our share repurchase execution more efficient. Their unique analytics helped us structure our programs optimally and achieve efficient pricing. This is one of the many reasons why we have relied on them for the last 4 years.”
Odette Go
Treasurer
“Bringing Matthews South on board was one of the best decisions we made in our refinancing strategy. They helped us tackle a highly complex execution of issuing $300M in convertible notes, retiring $230M in maturing notes, including implementing a new capped call option, and unwinding the legacy option. This involved substantial and nonstandard structuring, accounting, and disclosure work. Matthews South made the process so much easier and lessened the burden on our teams. Most importantly, we achieved outstanding results with their guidance and hands-on approach. They go above and beyond, and I look forward to working with them again.”
Alex Shvartsburg
CFO
“Matthews South is a trusted advisor to onsemi.
They have advised us on several capital markets transactions including convertible issuances and exchanges. They are deep experts and completely focused on the interests of their clients. Their use of technology and their ability to deliver meaningful cost savings is impressive. I would highly recommend the Matthews South team to any prospective issuer.”
Thad Trent
Executive VP & CFO
“We are extremely pleased with Matthews South’s work as financial advisor to our convertible refinancing transaction. We engaged them well before we made the decision to proceed with the financing. Matthews South reviewed our operating model and financial plans and developed a framework for us to evaluate various hypothetical M&A, refinancing, and capital return scenarios. This work helped us make informed decisions on the structuring and timing of our financing.
I would also highlight the cost savings created by the call spread auction that Matthews South conducted for us. Their software solution allowed us to solicit bids from a large number of banks for different allocations and lower strike possibilities (over 190 permutations) and find the optimized allocation scenario quickly. On a very busy day, the efficiency of their software-driven auction process gave us more time to focus on the marketing of the convertible offering.”
Howard Wilson
CFO
“When Covid hit, we relied on Matthews South Capital Market Advisors to help us navigate the capital raising process. We considered all financing alternatives together with Matthews South, and they helped us execute a successful equity issuance during a volatile time. We always felt that Matthews South was on our side, and only our side and gave us the unconflicted advice we so desperately needed.”
Tara Comonte
CFO
“Matthews South is our trusted capital markets advisor for our share repurchase program. Their unique, data-driven approach was crucial in navigating us through execution of our accelerated share repurchases, including our strategically important $7 billion ASR in Q1 2022. From initial education to help with structuring choices, documentation and the pricing process, they were with us every step of the way. After the execution of the ASR, they provided us with daily reporting on the progress of the program that we found to be very useful.”
Grace Lee
SVP Finance
“We chose Matthews South to advise us on the unwind of our two call spreads. We were impressed by their deep understanding of derivative valuation, legal frameworks available to us, and industry practice in this area. They helped formulate the strategy for approaching the seven counterparties, led the negotiations with them, and ensured that the unwinds were done on time with the closing date of our deal. Matthews South achieved a great result for us. We would highly recommend them.”
Brian Roberts
CFO
“Matthews South’s creativity helped us conceive and execute the first ever “assignable” convertible as part of our spin-off of Maxeon. They are subject matter experts who provide us with unconflicted capital markets advice. I view Matthews South as an extension of my team and they are my first call when I need independent capital markets advice.”
Manu Sial
CFO
“We have relied on Matthews South for our last three convertible financings. They have consistently helped us achieve outstanding pricing terms on both the convertible and call spread. They also provide significant leverage to our team in documentation preparation, convertible accounting, and overall process management. Our latest convertible bond deal (Nov 2020) yielded terms with a 0% coupon and a 62.5% premium!”
Tim Murphy
SVP & Treasurer
“The Matthews South team was fantastic to work with, and they significantly enhanced the economics of our convertible offering through their domain expertise. The valuation model of a convertible is complex and subtle, and during a fast-moving day of execution we relied on their experience and instincts to make high-stakes decisions on the fly. Relying on their guidance and their understanding of the book building process, we were able to push both the initial price range and the eventual pricing of the bond to more aggressive levels. Matthews South also conducted a highly successful auction for our capped call that resulted in pricing that exceeded our expectations. I would whole-heartedly recommend working with Matthews South for their expertise, experience and trustworthy capital markets advice.”
Sanjay Datta
CFO
“We have used Matthews South for two separate convertible issuances. They are a trusted part of our team. In our most recent financing, they helped us, and our Board, understand the economics of refinancing our existing convertible and how to structure the repurchase and new issuance to achieve the best economics. Matthews South was invaluable on the day of execution when they helped us monitor the order book as it developed, understand our tactical options, and ultimately helped us push the syndicate to get the best pricing terms possible.”
Justin Spencer
CFO
Our Team
Kevin Castellano
Vijay Culas
Gian-Marco Frey
Chip Gibbs
Bryan Goldstein
Jared Kramer
Vahagn Minasian
Dhruv Sanger
Beesham A Seecharan
Sheng Wang
Kristina Woodhouse
Laurence Xu