Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Matt Salerno is a corporate partner in the New York office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. Matt represents clients in complex domestic and cross border mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, investments, joint ventures, carveouts, and other corporate transactions. He represents clients across a broad range of industries, with particular expertise in the healthcare, consumer, and business services sectors.

Matt has extensive experience leading high-profile private equity transactions, including the $4.25 billion acquisition by Advent International and Warburg Pincus of BioPharma Solutions, the investment by Berkshire Partners and Warburg Pincus in Ensemble Health Partners, the 8.9 billion sale of Summit Health-CityMD's to VillageMD, as well as the sale by TPG of Astound Broadband to Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners for $8.1 billion. Matt has also advised on a number of public company transactions, including representing Medtronic in its $49.9 billion acquisition of Covidien and several other strategic acquisitions.

Mr. Salerno joined the firm in 2001 and became a partner in 2010.

Mr. Salerno is a member of the Bar in New York.

Mr. Salerno received a J.D. degree from Fordham University School of Law in 2001 and an undergraduate degree from Cornell University in 1998.