Matthew M. Guest is a corporate and securities lawyer, and primarily focuses on advising banks and other financial services companies in mergers and acquisitions and capital-raising transactions. He also has advised numerous public and private companies in other industries re-garding acquisitions and dispositions, securities law matters, takeover defense, and general cor-porate and governance matters. Recent representations include:

• Bank of America Corporation in its sale of preferred stock and warrants to Berkshire Hathaway, its acquisition of Merrill Lynch and its sale of First Republic Bank
• Capital One Financial Corporation in its pending acquisitions of the U.S. operations of ING Direct Bank and the HSBC U.S. credit card business, and its 2009 acquisition of Chevy Chase Bank
• First PacTrust Bancorp in its pending acquisitions of Gateway Bank and Beach Business Bank
• Thermo Fisher Scientific in its acquisition of Dionex Corpora-tion
• Warburg Pincus in its acquisition of The Mutual Fund Store and investment in National Penn Bancshares
• COR Capital in its investment in First PacTrust Bancorp
• Elliott Associates in its investment in Opus Bank
• BPW Acquisition Corp. in its sale to The Talbots, Inc.
• SCBT Financial Corporation in its acquisitions of Community Bank & Trust, Habersham Bank and BankMeridian from the FDIC
• BB&T Corporation in its acquisition of Colonial Bank from the FDIC
• West Coast Bancorp in its sale of common stock and equivalent preferred to private investors, and follow-on equity offerings
• Webster Financial Corporation in its sale of common stock and equivalent preferred to Warburg Pincus
• Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. in its 2009 acquisi-tion of Metavante Technologies, Inc. and July 2010 recapitalization and self-tender offer
• Wells Fargo & Company in its November 2008, May 2009 and December 2009 public offerings of common stock and its acquisition of Wachovia Corporation

Mr. Guest graduated from Yale Law School. While at Yale, he was Notes Editor of Volume 109 of the Yale Law Journal. Prior to attending law school, he received his A.B. in Economics and International Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he graduated with highest distinction and honors, and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.