Matt Sperling, is the Chairman, Capital Markets & Advisory Board Member at Tigress Financial Partners.  Matt has over 25 years of experience in equity capital markets and investment banking in addition to serving as a senior corporate executive focused on capital markets and investor relations. Matt’s broad experience and deep expertise includes leading, advising, structuring, executing and/or pricing over 250 equity transactions that raised over $97B, performing board advisory, M&A and DCM mandates, and driving in-house corporate transaction analysis, execution, and shareholder interaction.

Matt started his career practicing securities and corporate finance law at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett before moving to investment banking as an equity capital markets banker on the desks of Credit Suisse, UBS and Jefferies, where he led ECM origination in a number of sectors. Matt then founded and ran Rothschild’s equity advisory business in the U.S., during which time he advised on some of the highest profile ECM transactions ever completed, including Alibaba’s $25B IPO, the Canadian government’s block trades of $3.7B of General Motors stock, Spotify’s $31B direct listing and Teva Pharmaceutical’s concurrent $7.4B common stock and convertible offerings. In 2020, Matt joined his client, IHS Towers (NYSE: IHS) as Vice President, Capital Markets & IR and Head of U.S. Operations. At IHS, Matt led the company’s IPO and the equity capital markets function, established the investor relations group, opened the New York office and oversaw U.S. operations. In 2024, Matt founded RawlsOccam Insights, an equity transaction advisory and ECM expert witness services firm. 

Matt has an A.B. from Harvard College and a J.D. from Yale Law School. He on the Executive Committee and Co-Chair of the Audit Committee of the Board of Third Street Music School Settlement, the longest-running community music school in the U.S. He enjoys fine wine and spirits, old school hip hop, early-20th century American realist art, and mid-century architecture.