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Practice
Ms. Matthews has been with the Firm since 1985 as a member of the Corporate International Department, with general experience in a broad range of corporate issues and with extensive experience in the practice areas of international banking and mergers and acquisitions. In the international banking area, she has represented a number of domestic and international banks and non-bank clients before all principal U.S. bank regulatory agencies. Such representation involves the preparation and filing of applications for de novo and expanded banking and non-banking activities, applications for the formation of bank and non-bank entities (including brokerage, financing and securities subsidiaries, credit card banks, branches, agencies and representative offices), merger applications, change of control applications and advice with respect to the structuring of such holdings. The transactional activities include lending and financing activities, acquisitions, and numerous other bank transactional activities. Ms. Matthews’ practice in mergers and acquisitions includes the acquisition, sale, merger or other corporate reorganization, on a negotiated or hostile basis, of international and domestic, public and private, corporations and other entities. Ms. Matthews has spoken on numerous banking and financial-related subjects, and has acted as moderator on a panel on the financial services chapter of NAFTA sponsored by the Association Internationale des Jeunes Avocats.
Education
J.D., Fordham University School of Law, 1984
M.B.A., Finance, Hofstra University School of Business, 1980
B.A., Mathematics and Political Science, State University of New York at Binghamton, Harpur College, 1974
Associations
American Bar Association
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
Publications
Banking in the United States After NAFTA: Any Change?, The North American Free Trade Agreement: Provisions and Implications (Beatriz Boza, ed.), Association Internationale des Jeunes Avocats, 1993
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