Matthew Meiners is a partner in the Baton Rouge office of Kean Miller. He joined the firm in 2009 and practices in the business and corporate group. Matthew’s practice involves representing clients in connection with a variety of transactional matters, including:
- Purchase and sale of industrial and commercial businesses through asset transfers, equity transfers, and mergers
- Formation of new entities, including joint ventures, drafting organizational documents, and planning of overall corporate structure and corporate governance
- Industrial service and purchase agreements across a variety of industries, including petrochemical site services and supply relationships, representing site owners as well as industrial contractors and suppliers
- Secured finances, including syndicated credit facilities, construction loans, and asset-based loans
- Commercial and industrial leases
- Employment agreements and non-competition agreement
Representative Experience
- Represented an e-commerce platform and affiliated BBQ grill manufacturing entity in a joint sale of businesses to a private equity group
- Represented major oil and gas company in the divestiture of its working interest in Gulf of Mexico oil and gas lease
- Represented numerous local and regional businesses in the sale of their businesses to private equity groups for cash, notes, earnout arrangements, and rollover equity investments
- Represented major international special chemical company in the drafting and negotiation of its supply, manufacturing, labelling, and packaging agreements
- Represented major LNG terminal projects in the drafting and negotiation of industrial service and purchase agreements
- Represented numerous Louisiana petrochemical plants, as well as industrial contractors and suppliers, in the drafting and negotiation of industrial service and purchase agreements, including drafting templates for Master Services Agreements and Master Purchase Agreements
- Represented major pipeline company in the acquisition of gas pipeline and related servitudes and rights of way in Louisiana
- Represented publicly traded company in major corporate restructuring project, including mergers, conversions, and creation of subsidiaries and affiliates
- Represented numerous commercial borrowers in securing syndicated credit facilities
- Represented numerous individuals and businesses in connection with formation of new entities, including drafting organizational documents, planning of overall corporate structure, and corporate governance
- Represented numerous clients in the drafting and negotiation of security agreements, pledge agreements, guaranties and other security devices, and the perfection of security interests
- Prepared employment agreements, independent contractor agreements, and non-competition/non-solicitation agreements
- Represented numerous banks in connection with secured finances, including construction loans and asset-based loans
Education
Matthew earned his B.S. in International Trade and Finance with a minor in Economics from Louisiana State University in 1998. He earned his J.D., cum laude, from the LSU Law Center in 2009.
Admissions
- Admitted, Louisiana, 2009
Memberships
- Baton Rouge (Former Co-Chair, Business and Corporate Section) and Louisiana State Bar Associations
Articles, Publications and Presentations
- Selling Your Business: Key Considerations for a Successful Transaction, Louisiana Law Blog, December 4, 2024
- PERSONAL LIABILITY OF LOUISIANA BUSINESS OWNERS – Is Your Liability Really “Limited”? Louisiana Law Blog, September 19, 2024
- Contract Indemnity and Enforcement in the Energy Industry, Association of Corporate Counsel Energy Network Legal Update, August 14, 2024
- My People, My Property, My Problem: Knock-for-Knock Indemnity Explained, Louisiana Law Blog, May 21, 2024
- Co-Presenter, Personal Liability of Business Owners: Is your Liability Really “Limited?” Kean Miller Lunch and Learn, November 8, 2023
- Co-Presenter, Personal Liability of Business Owners: Is your Liability Really “Limited?” Kean Miller Breakfast Briefing, May 25, 2023
- Top 10 LLC Operating Agreement Considerations, Louisiana Law Blog, January 20, 2023
- Co-Presenter, LLC Operating Agreement Considerations & Preview of the Corporate Transparency Act, Kean Miller Breakfast Briefing, September 1, 2022
- Co-Presenter, Putting the CARES Act to Work for Your Business, Kean Miller Webinar, April 2, 2020
- Don't Throw Out Your Old Construction MSA Just Yet - LA Middle District Holds That the Date of the MSA Controls (Not the Date of the Work Order) For Purposes of Applying the Louisiana Construction Anti-Indemnity Act, Louisiana Law Blog, March 22, 2019
- Statutory Employer: A Louisiana Primer, Louisiana Law Blog, May 25, 2017
- Successor Liability: Considerations When Structuring Your Acquisition, Louisiana Law Blog, May 22, 2017
- Co-Presenter, Heavily Negotiated Contract Provisions, Kean Miller Breakfast Briefing Seminar, March 2016
- Co-Presenter, Louisiana Business Corporation Act, Kean Miller CLE Presentation, December 2015
- Louisiana Business Corporation Act Replaces Louisiana Business Corporation Law, Louisiana Law Blog, August 7, 2015
- Ownership of Attorney-Client Privilege Following Merger, Louisiana Law Blog, February 11, 2014
- Personal Liability of Members of an LLC – Louisiana Supreme Court Provides Guidance, Louisiana Law Blog, February 7, 2014
- Warning: Solicitations For Corporate Records Services, Louisiana Law Blog, July 22, 2011
- State Tax Nexus Issues, Louisiana Law Blog, January 13, 2011
- State Tax Nexus Issues, Lagniappe, Louisiana CPA publication, November 2010
- Piercing the Veil of an LLC – The Fourth Circuit Weighs In, Louisiana Law Blog, October 15, 2010
- Piercing the Veil of an LLC – The Fourth Circuit Weighs In, Kean Miller Business Newsletter, July 2010
Community Service
- Former Board of Directors, Baton Rouge Green
- Youth athletics coach