diff --git a/src/Workspaces/Core/Portable/PatternMatching/PatternMatcher.AllLowerCamelCaseMatcher.cs b/src/Workspaces/Core/Portable/PatternMatching/PatternMatcher.AllLowerCamelCaseMatcher.cs
index 6e12fcfd07735b9bc7c55a83dc590fe69ad777a3..698b1b997bd001e83b3a59b1dda4a45d63386923 100644
--- a/src/Workspaces/Core/Portable/PatternMatching/PatternMatcher.AllLowerCamelCaseMatcher.cs
+++ b/src/Workspaces/Core/Portable/PatternMatching/PatternMatcher.AllLowerCamelCaseMatcher.cs
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ public AllLowerCamelCaseMatcher(string candidate, bool includeMatchedSpans, Stri
 
                 if (matchSpanToAdd != null)
                 {
-                    matchedSpansInReverse.Add(matchSpanToAdd.Value);
+                    matchedSpansInReverse?.Add(matchSpanToAdd.Value);
                 }
 
                 // This was result was better than whatever previous best result we had was.