Overview
Matt focuses his practice on representing clients in a wide range of complex commercial real estate transactions.
Matt has significant experience representing clients on standalone and portfolio acquisitions and dispositions, along with related borrower-side financing and refinancing, across a variety of asset classes. His experience includes work in industries such as multifamily, hospitality, gaming and leisure, retail, office and industrial. He also has experience representing clients through joint venture structuring and formation, along with extensive real estate diligence in connection with corporate transactions.
Matt served most recently as a Real Estate Associate at Latham & Watkins LLP in Chicago. Previously, he graduated cum laude from Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Prior to attending law school, Matt was a wide receiver on the Division I Lafayette College football team, where he double majored in government and law and philosophy.
What I Do
Experience
Represented a publicly traded REIT as buyer’s and landlord’s counsel in a more than $22 million sale-leaseback transaction involving five auto repair properties in Nebraska, Tennessee, Illinois and Alabama.
Represented a publicly traded REIT in a $150+ million acquisition of 23 strip shopping centers in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Arizona, Texas, Virginia and Indiana.
Represented a publicly traded real estate investment trust in the disposition of a retail property in Colorado for over $23,600,000.
Represented a large private equity fund in the acquisition of 12 retail properties in Ohio and West Virginia for nearly $24,000,000.
Represented a real estate investment trust that specializes in shopping centers in the disposition of Henderson Square Mall in Pennsylvania for more than $34 million.
Represented the largest U.S.-based owner and operator of last-mile industrial real estate in the nearly $55 million sale of five industrial properties in Kentucky and Ohio.
Represented a large private equity fund in the nearly $24 million acquisition of 12 retail properties across Ohio and West Virginia.
Represented Blackstone in connection with its acquisition of a portfolio of 228 mortgage loans from Atlantic Union Bank for approximately $2 billion.
Represented a publicly traded real estate investment trust specializing in convenience real estate in the acquisition of a 5-property convenience portfolio in Pennsylvania for nearly $15 million.
Represented a publicly traded real estate investment trust specializing in grocery anchored shopping centers in its nearly $37 million acquisition of the Westgate North Shopping Center in Washington.
Represented a publicly traded real estate investment trust specializing in multifamily in the sale of apartments in California for more than $125 million.
Represented a metal manufacturer in the sale of an industrial warehouse in Ohio for over $6 million.
Represented a real estate agency in the acquisition of a medical center in Ames, Iowa for $2.75 million.
Represented a large private equity firm in the sale of four multifamily apartment properties in Ohio for over $60 million.
Represented KeyBank in connection with its $23.85 million loan for the acquisition of two industrial properties in Lugoff, South Carolina.
Represented The NRP Group LLC in its $7 million purchase of unimproved land in Travis County, Texas, and the subsequent $53 million loan for the construction of a multifamily project on the land.
Represented The Mid-America Management Corporation in its acquisition of a shopping center in northeast Ohio for more than $12 million.
Represented The NRP Group LLC in a joint venture formation to allow for the construction and development of 3 multifamily projects in Texas.
Represented The NRP Group LLC in a more than $45 million joint venture financing for the construction and development of a multifamily project in Princeton, Texas.
Represented Brookfield Asset Management in connection with the real estate and loan-related matters of its acquisition of a portfolio of 43 mortgage loans from Valley National Bank for over $920 million.
Represented a shopping center REIT specializing in retail in its sale of an enclosed mall in West Virginia for $12.5 million.
Represented a large private equity fund in connection with its acquisition of twenty-one retail/industrial properties in a more than $40 million NNN sale-leaseback portfolio transaction.
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Credentials
Education
- cum laude
- Alpha Sigma Nu
- Dean’s List
- American Bar Association National Appellate Advocacy Moot Court Team (Brief Writer)
- CALI Excellence for the Future Awards in Legal Writing I, Legal Writing II and Appellate Advocacy
- National Football Foundation Hampshire Honor Society
- Dean’s List
- Men’s Football Team, 4-year letter winner
Clerkships and Bar Admissions
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