“Matt is all round excellent, extremely capable, commercial and responsive – Everything I’d want in an adviser.”
— Chambers USA 2025
Matt Graban is a Chambers-ranked, seasoned corporate attorney, focusing on mergers and acquisitions, private capital raising and strategic transactions. He has extensive experience advising private and public companies and private equity firms, foreign and domestic, on all forms of transactions. In addition, Matt routinely counsels clients in connection with mission-critical commercial and operational issues as well as agreements and corporate governance matters, acting as principal outside general counsel for a number of privately held businesses and emerging companies.
Matt also routinely represents companies and senior management teams in connection with employment agreements, equity-based compensation plans and severance arrangements, and advises high-net-worth individuals on complex issues under federal securities laws in connection with estate planning using publicly traded securities.
Matt is listed in The Best Lawyers in America® in the area of Corporate Law. He is a member of the firm's Retirement Plan Investment Committee, the Cleveland office's Hiring Committee and is the former Business Group leader of the Cleveland office.
