Donovan

Matt Donovan

Associate

Boston

I’m fortunate to work with companies that are shaping our future.

Matt’s practice involves advising public and private companies on a wide range of corporate matters, including formation, financing and other transactions, and general governance considerations. 

Leveraging extensive experience working for emerging companies in the AI and Web3 industries, Matt also represents entrepreneurs as they develop their business plans and launch their companies.



Education

  • Fordham University School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2024
  • Fordham University, B.A., magna cum laude, 2021

Bar and Court Admissions

BAR ADMISSIONS
  • Massachusetts

Experience

Emerging Company and Venture Capital
  • LinqAlpha, a New York-based AI company building the Alpha Intelligence Layer for global public markets, in connection with its $22 million Series A financing led by AVP, Atinum Investment, and GFT Ventures, with participation from a global syndicate of strategic financial institutions and venture platforms.
  • Azolla Ventures in equity investments, enabling early-stage companies with potential for gigaton-scale carbon dioxide equivalent reductions.
  • Numerous startups in venture capital, convertible note and SAFE financings 
  • Numerous startups in Department of Energy grants
  • Zero Homes, a technology company pioneering an end-to-end digital platform that removes friction from home upgrades for both homeowners and contractors, in its Series A raise led by Prelude Ventures and including SJF Ventures, Exelon Foundation, and existing investors VoLo Earth Ventures, Overture VC, and FJ Labs
Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Root.io, the creator and developer of a platform that remediates open-source software vulnerabilities, in its sale to Aikido Security BV
  • AstroNova, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALOT), a provider of mission-critical identification and marking solutions for the aerospace & defense and labeling & packaging industries, in its $272 million all-cash sale to Arcline Investment Management, a growth-oriented private equity firm
  • Metallizing Service Company, a company specializing in thermal spray coating technologies for aircrafts, in its sale to Surface Finishing Technologies, Inc, a portfolio company of Behrman Capital
  • Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), a leading cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects businesses online, in its recently announced acquisition of Fermyon Technologies, Inc., a serverless WebAssembly company
  • Standex International Corporation (NYSE: SXI) in its divestiture of Federal Industries, its display merchandising business, to AeriTek Global Holdings LLC (AeriTek), a portfolio company of Mill Point Capital

Other Publications

  • Ripple Effect: The SEC’s Major Questions Doctrine Problem, 91 FORDHAM L. REV. 2309 (2023)

Honors & Involvement

HONORS
  • Articles & Notes Editor, Fordham Law Review Volume 92

Speaking Engagements

  • Greentown Labs Lunch & Learn Series: Public Benefit Corporations