Lansing

313 South Washington Square

Lansing, MI 48933-2114

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Matt G. Hrebec

Currently the vice president of the firm's Lansing office and a member of the Business & Corporate Practice Group, Matt's primary practice areas are corporate transactions, securities regulation and employee benefits. He has represented clients from a wide range of industries in all types of corporate transactions and because of his breadth of knowledge and reputation for practical and highly effective solutions, he is often called upon by his clients to serve as general counsel. A more detailed listing of Matt's services follows:

• Mergers and Acquisitions: Purchase and sale of businesses; tax-free and taxable transactions; reorganizations; stock for stock exchanges; asset sales.
• Securities Regulation: Private offerings, Initial Public Offerings (IPOs), secondary offerings, broker/dealer regulation, customer disputes, Williams Act reporting, Exchange Act reporting and compliance.
• General Counsel: corporate governance; business entity selection, organization and planning; board and officer succession planning; shareholder agreements. 
• Banking Law: State and federal regulation; Bank holding company matters; PATRIOT Act; bank branching; executive compensation; sales and acquisitions.  
• Employee Benefits: ESOPs, nonqualified deferred compensation, stock based compensation, including phantom stock and stock options.  

Matt joined Foster Swift in 1989 after earning both of his degrees at the University of Michigan. A lifelong Michigan resident, Matt is active in the community and enjoys spending time with his family.

Highlights & Recognitions

Representative Matters

• Assisted Michigan family owned business in connection with a multi-state business acquisition initiative. 
• Assisted Michigan bank holding company in connection with $110 million acquisition of Michigan-based bank holding company.
• Assisted Michigan bank holding company in connection with $92 million acquisition of Michigan-based bank holding company.
• Assisted client in connection with two private offerings of equity securities under Regulation D totaling $13 million.
• Assisted Michigan bank holding company in connection with $840 million sale of its business to an out-of-state, publicly-held corporation.
• Assisted Michigan manufacturer in connection with $44 million sale of its business to an out-of-state, publicly-held corporation. 
• Assisted publicly-held corporation in connection with its "going private" transaction and issuance of $10 million of trust preferred securities. 
• Assisted Michigan food processor in connection with $20 million sale of its business to a private equity fund. 

News

• Foster Swift Elects 2011 Executive Committee, February 24, 2011
• Foster Swift's 2011 Best Lawyers, August 17, 2010
• Foster Swift Announces 2009 Best Lawyers, August 18, 2009
• Foster Swift Announces 2009 Executive Committee & Practice Group Leader Appointments, February 12, 2009
• Foster Swift Announces 2008 Best Lawyers In America, September 18, 2008
• 2008 Executive Committee & Practice Group Leader Appointments Announced, February 19, 2008

Speaking Engagements

• Advising Small Businesses--Choice of Entity, State Bar of Michigan Business Law Section Small Business Forum, March 7, 2007
• Advising Small Businesses-Choice of Entity, March 7, 2007
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, Legal Assistant Section, State Bar of Michigan Annual Day of Education, May 6, 2005
• Best Practices - The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, June 18, 2004
• The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: Corporate Responsibility and Governance Issues, Lorman Seminar, June 17, 2004
• How Corporate Governance Can Work For You by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, Michigan Chapter of the ESOP Association, March 31, 2004

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Publications

• Michigan Securities Law will Change Dramatically on October 1, 2009, Foster Swift Business & Corporate Law Update, October 2009
• Innovative Ways of Compensating the Bank Executive, Law Notes, October 1992
• Employee Benefit Considerations in the Context of a Divorce, Michigan Bar Journal, March 1990

Memberships & Affiliations

Legal Affiliations:

• Ingham Bar Association
• State Bar of Michigan Bar 
  - Business Law Section
  - Taxation Section

Industry & Professional Associations:

• National Association of Stock Plan Professionals
• ESOP Association, Michigan Chapter
• Michigan Tax Lawyer Magazine, Former Member, Publication Committee
• Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Hillary Term 2004, Adjunct Professor