Matthew J. Cornish is Managing Director in Financial Institutions focused on Insurance Services, Illiquid Financial Assets, and related sectors. He joined the firm in 2025.
Matt has over 15 years of experience in financial services, having successfully executed a wide variety of transactions across multiple industries and asset classes, including benefits, TPAs, P&C claims, Medicare, ACA, self-funded healthcare, life settlements, tax receivable agreements, capital raising, minority equity, secondaries, and private equity and hedge fund LP interests.
Serving as either sell-side or buy-side advisor, or as financial advisor in highly structured transactions, select clients include:
- AccuRisk
- Alliant National Title
- Apollo
- The Ardonagh Group
- Avesis
- Babcock & Brown
- The Bank of New York Mellon
- Blackstone
- Cerberus
- Davidson Kempner
- Futura Title & Escrow
- Guardian Life
- Healthcare Funding Partners
- MIO Partners
- Mortgage Connect
- Obra (fka Vida)
- ReedGroup
- State Auto Financial Corporation
- Title365
- TSG Consumer
- Winston Benefits
Prior to joining Solomon, Matt was a Director in the Financial Services Group & Illiquid Financial Assets Group at Houlihan Lokey. Earlier, he worked at Ernst & Young in the Valuation & Business Modeling practice.
Matthew earned a BS in Accountancy, BS in Economics, and BS in Business Administration with concentration in Finance from Villanova University. He holds Series 7 and 63 licenses with FINRA.