Matthew J. Guercio
Partner, Corporate & Financial Services
Matthew Guercio is a partner in the firm's Corporate & Financial Services Department and Co-Chair of the Private Equity Practice Group. His practice focuses primarily on representing private equity sponsors in public and private mergers and acquisitions, as well as growth equity and venture capital investments. In addition, Matthew provides advice on corporate governance issues, securities laws matters, joint ventures, corporate restructurings and reorganizations, and other complex corporate matters. Matthew’s private equity experience includes representing numerous portfolio companies throughout an investment’s lifecycle.
Matthew was ranked #1 in MergerLink’s listing of the “Top Mid Cap M&A Lawyers in North America” for 2022, 2021 and 2020. In 2020, he was recognized by The Deal as a finalist for “Technology, Media & Telecom Dealmaker of the Year” (Middle Market Awards).
Experience
- SignUp Software, a portfolio company of Insight Partners, on its acquisition of SKsoft and the formation of a global solutions suite for Microsoft Dynamics 365.
- Insight Partners as lead investor in a $62 million Series B financing round for incident.io, an AI-powered incident response platform
- PDI Technologies, a portfolio company of Insight Partners, on its acquisition of P97 Networks, a digital marketing platform provider for the convenience retail, automotive, and fuel markets
- Insight Partners on the sale of Dotmatics, a leading provider of life sciences R&D software, to Siemens AG for $5.1 billion
- Insight Partners on the sale of CentralReach, a leading provider of autism and IDD care software, to Roper Technologies, Inc. for a net purchase price of $1.65 billion, inclusive of $200 million of tax benefits
- Insight Partners on its Series J investment in Databricks, a leader in data and AI, that values the company at $62 billion
- Insight Partners and its portfolio company Inhabit, a global proptech software provider, in connection with an investment from Blackstone and Greater Sum Ventures
- Insight Partners and Tricentis in a $1.33 billion investment in Tricentis from GTCR
- Insight Partners in its Series B investment in European cybertech firm Filigran
- Optimizely, a portfolio company of Insight Partners, on its acquisition of warehouse native analytics platform NetSpring
- Insight Partners in connection with the sale of Featurespace, a leader in payments protection technology, to Visa
- Insight Partners in connection with the sale of Own Company to Salesforce
- Insight Partners in a $456 million investment with Sixth Street Growth in Kiteworks, a leader in secure content communications
- Tricentis, a portfolio company of Insight Partners and global leader in AI-powered continuous testing, on its acquisition of SeaLights, a software quality intelligence platform
- Insight Partners in its $4.4 billion acquisition with Clearlake Capital of cloud analytics company Alteryx Inc.
- Community Brands, a portfolio company of Insight Partners, in its sale to TA Associates
- Insight Partners in its majority investment with Carlyle in Exiger, a supply chain risk management software company
- CivicPlus, a portfolio company of Insight Partners, in the sale of its Monsido platform to Acquia
- Insight Partners in its investment in HawkEye 360 Inc., a leading defense technology company for space-based radio frequency data and analytics
- Insight Partners in its investment in in Bestpass, Inc., a leading toll management and payment platform for commercial vehicles
- Insight Partners in connection with its recommended public cash offer to the shareholders of SignUp Software AB
- PDI Technologies, a portfolio company of Insight Partners, in its acquisitions of Blue Cow Software, LLC, and Skupos
- Insight Partners on its Series A investment in Buynomics GmbH, a SaaS platform to support enterprise customers with commercial decisions
- Sixth Street and BGH Capital in the acquisition of Pushpay Holdings Limited
- CommerceHub, a portfolio company of Insight Partners, in its acquisition of ChannelAdvisor Corporation
- CivicPlus, a portfolio company of Insight Partners, in its acquisition of Optimere
- Insight Partners as a lead investor in a consortium’s $690 million investment in Coda Payments
- Insight Partners on its investment in Precisely, a leader in data integrity software
- Kaseya on its $6.2 billion acquisition of Datto
- Insight Partners on its Series B investment in incident automation company Shoreline.io
- Ministry Brands in a majority investment from Reverence Capital Partners
- Insight Partners on its investment in Latin American fintech company, Pomelo
- Insight Partners in its acquisition, with Genstar Capital, of Vector Solutions
- Insight Partners and other sellers on the sale of Duco Technology Limited to Nordic Capital
- Insight Partners in connection with a $70 Million Series B funding round in Ably Real-Time, a data synchronization platform
- Fenergo in its sale by Insight Partners to Astorg and Bridgepoint
- Insightful Science, a portfolio company of Insight Partners, in its acquisition of Dotmatics, a scientific informatics software and services company
- Insight Partners in connection with a $50 million funding round in Pollinate
- Insight Partners in its partnership with HBC to launch Saks as a standalone ecommerce business, and its $500 million minority equity investment in Saks
- Episerver, a portfolio company of Insight Partners, in its acquisition of experience optimization platform Optimizely
- Bullhorn, a software provider for the recruitment industry, in a new strategic investment from Stone Point Capital
- Insight Partners in its acquisition of leading enterprise IoT security firm Armis for $1.1 billion
- Global HR software provider Bullhorn in its acquisition of Erecruit
- Insight Partners in its acquisition of threat intelligence company Recorded Future for $780 million
- Insight Partners in its investment in state and local government payment platform PayIt
- Insight Venture Partners in its investment in open banking platform Tink
- Insight Venture Partners in the acquisition of a majority of Israeli venture capital fund's Genesis Partners IV portfolio
- Anaqua in its sale to Astorg
- Insight Venture Partners in its $1.16 billion acquisition of Episerver
- Insight Venture Partners in its investment in EveryAction
- Virgin Pulse in its sale to Marlin Equity Partners
- Insight Venture Partners in its investment in CentralReach
- Insight Venture Partners in its investment in Property Brands
- Insight Venture Partners in its investment in Bullhorn
- eVestment in its $705 million sale to Nasdaq
- Frontline Education in its acquisition by Thoma Bravo
- Insight Venture Partners in its acquisition of Resolve Systems
- Insight Venture Partners in its $165 million investment in Tricentis
- Insight Venture Partners in its investment in Ministry Brands
- Insight Venture Partners in connection with a $250 million funding round for Tenable Network Security
- Insight Venture Partners in connection with a $200 million investment round in BlaBlaCar
- Westport in its merger with Fuel Systems Solutions
- Insight Venture Partners in its $75 million investment in Fenergo
- Insight Venture Partners in its control investment in Virgin Pulse
- Concurrent agreements by Shutterstock, Inc. to acquire Rex Features and PremiumBeat
- Sale of Metalogix to Permira Funds
- BeyondTrust in its sale to Veritas Capital
- Insight Venture Partners in its acquisition of FireMon
- AirWatch investors Insight Venture Partners and Accel Partners in the $1.54 billion sale of AirWatch to VMware, Inc.
- Insight Venture Partners in its acquisition of Unitrends, Inc.
- Westport Innovations in its acquisition of BAF Technologies
- Insight Venture Partners in its growth equity investment in Airwatch
- Insight Venture Partners in its acquisition of Kaseya Software
- Berkley Capital in the sale of FSV Payment Systems, Inc.
- Insight Venture Partners in the $2 billion agreement to take Quest Software private
- GFI Software, an affiliate of Insight Venture Partners, in several acquisitions including TeamViewer, Katharion, HoundDog and VIPRE Software
- J.Crew Group Chairman and CEO Millard Drexler as part of the buying group in the $3 billion acquisition of J.Crew
- Folhamatic Group, an affiliate of Insight Venture Partners, in its sale to UK-based Sage Group plc
- GreenTree Credit Solutions, an affiliate of Centerbridge Capital Partners, in its approximately $1 billion acquisition by Walter Investment Management Corp.
- Weber-Hydraulik in the acquisition of Hyco International from Centre Partners Management
- Lime Rock Partners in its investment in UTEC International
- Funds managed by affiliates of Fortress Investment Group and Centerbridge Capital Partners in their terminated $8.9 billion agreement to acquire Penn National Gaming and their subsequent purchase of $1.25 billion of preferred stock of Penn National Gaming
- Resorts International in its $675 million sale of Resorts East Chicago to Ameristar Casinos
- Resorts International in its $960 million CMBS refinancing
- Insight Venture Partners in its investment in Six Waves
- Insight Venture Partners in its investment in Jirbo
- Insight Venture Partners in its acquisition of eCommerce Industries
- Best Buy in the sale of Speakeasy to Covad Communications
- Major League Baseball in the sale of the Washington Nationals Franchise
- MidAmerican Energy in its terminated $4.7 billion agreement to acquire Constellation Energy
Credentials
Education
University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D., 2003 Cornell University, B.A., 2000