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About Matt

Matt is a senior associate in the Corporate and Commercial department, acting on a range of corporate, governance and development related matters, with a particular specialism in housing associations and family office work.

Recent Experience

  • Advising on mergers between RPs (including transfers of engagement and amalgamations) including undertaking extensive due diligence and providing specialist regulatory, governance and vires advice.
  • Advising RPs on their corporate restructuring, providing specific advice on regulatory implications and co-operative and community benefit societies law.
  • Advising on the registration of For Profit RPs
  • Advising on a range of vires issues associated with the activities of exempt charities, the operation of their businesses and the transfer of their assets, including  advising a G15 housing association on vires considerations and legal methodology relating to the implementation of rent caps to its shared ownership leases.
  • Advising Optivo on the terms of a contractual and agency Agreement with Sage as part of a seminal £106 million pound partnership. For more information, please see this press release
  • Advising on the company secretarial requirements and maintenance of statutory registers for a corporate group.
  • Advising Notting Hill Genesis on the largest regeneration scheme in the UK at Old Oak Common, delivered as a joint venture between Notting Hill Genesis and Queen’s Park Rangers football club.

Professional Memberships

  • Law Society of England and Wales

Career Experience

2022 to present: Senior Associate, Winckworth Sherwood

2020 to 2022: Associate, Winckworth Sherwood

2017 to 2020: Solicitor, Winckworth Sherwood

2015 to 2017: Trainee Solicitor, Winckworth Sherwood

Winckworth is clearly an experienced team with strong leadership in place. The team are contactable, diligent and trustworthy advisers.

Chambers and Partners, 2024

1/4

The team is consistently excellent and always on hand to meet our varied demands.

Chambers and Partners, 2024

1/4

Richard Tinham and Matt Cowen are always quick to help us and understand our values and risk appetite.

Legal 500, 2024

1/4

The social housing team is extremely knowledgeable about each and every area of housing management. It is committed to delivering realistic advice to clients and delivering the best achievable results.

Legal 500, 2024

1/4

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