”Jon and Bill make it clear that they really care about the experience we as lawyers are having. They’re very supportive and always checking to make sure that the balance is right – if I want more work, they get it for me; if I want to slow down for some reason, they find a way to accommodate that too. I get all that flexibility and the broad experience that comes with working in a variety of companies and industries.”

Mary Regan

Matt Nydell

Attorney, Member of the Firm

Phone: 978-987-4655
Email: mnydell@outsidegc.com

Mr. Nydell has been a senior attorney with Outside GC since 2008.

With over 20 years of sophisticated broad-based corporate legal experience, Matt combines the discipline developed as a private practice attorney with the pragmatic, entrepreneurial and commercially-oriented focus derived through in-house counsel, senior-level management, corporate and business development roles with high-growth technology, communication and strategic consulting companies. Throughout his career, Matt has provided legal advice to senior executives and board members on a broad range of corporate, corporate governance, intellectual property and commercial legal issues.

Matt's clients at Outside GC include Empirix Inc., where he works on-site as de facto general counsel, as well as Mintera and TestPlant Ltd.

Before joining Outside GC, Matt founded and served as President of Arete Corporate Advisory LLC, a corporate advisory firm where he provided strategic and transaction advisory services to clients of sizes ranging from start-ups to global companies. Before founding this firm, Matt served eight years as Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary of VIA NET.WORKS, Inc., a NASDAQ and Euronext-listed publicly traded Internet services and managed hosting provider, where he built a legal group from the ground up, and supported the rapid acquisition-driven growth of the company, its IPO, strategic repositioning and ultimate sale. At VIA, Matt focused on M&A and financing transactions, corporate governance, compliance and policy matters, intellectual property management and transactions, labor and employment issues, and SEC regulatory compliance. Prior to VIA, he served in both legal and managerial roles with MCI Communications, where, among other roles, he supported MCI's Mass Markets' IT, product and marketing groups, structuring and negotiating a broad range of technology transactions, marketing alliances and partnership agreements, and providing commercial and legal advice in the development and roll-out of new products and services. Earlier, Matt practiced law with the New York-based Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine, where he advised and supported clients in a broad range of corporate, transactional and SEC matters.

Matt has significant international experience, having lived and worked in Europe and having managed operational legal matters and transactions in over 17 countries. He is a member of the bar of Massachusetts, Virginia and the District of Columbia.

Matt earned a joint degree (J.D./M.A.) in law and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia (School of Law and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences). At UVa Law School, he was elected to Order of the Coif, and was a Member of the Editorial Board, Virginia Journal of International Law.

Matt has served as a board member on a number of non-profit and professional associations. He currently is a member of Association of Corporate Counsel and Association for Corporate Growth. He is passionate about soccer, golden retrievers and supporting his son's aspirations to become a professional soccer player.