Matthew C. Sweger

Overview

Matt Sweger is a partner in the firm’s Business Transactions practice group. His practice focuses on corporate and finance transactions, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, capital raising, and formation of new businesses. He also acts as outside general counsel to clients on a range of corporate governance and general commercial matters.

Matt’s clients operate in a wide range of industries, including health care, real estate development and investment, research and development, financial services, software, defense, manufacturing, wholesale, retail, professional services, construction and transportation.

Matt is an elected member of the firm’s Executive Committee. He has been consistently recognized by Chambers USA in the areas of corporate law and mergers and acquisitions since 2015. He was also named “Lawyer of the Year” in 2018 and 2020 by Best Lawyers in America in the area of corporate law. Matt received his J.D., magna cum laude and Order of the Coif, from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and his B.A. from Washington & Jefferson College.  

Memberships & Affiliations

• University of Pittsburgh Law Review, Member
• Business Law, Tax, and Securities Sections of the State Bar of Arizona, Member
• Invest Southwest, Mentor Team Chair
• Committee on Rendering Legal Opinions in Business Transactions, Business Law Section of the State Bar of Arizona, Member, 2002-2004
• Business Law Section of the State Bar of Arizona, Chair of the Executive Council 2011-2012, Executive Council 2004-2012, CLE Programming Coordinator, 2004-2012