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.
Representative Experience
- Represented one of the largest private equity funds in the world in connection with the real estate and loan-related matters of its acquisition of a portfolio of 43 mortgage loans from a publicly-traded superregional bank for over $920 million.
- 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 large private equity firm in the sale of four multifamily apartment properties in Ohio for over $60 million.
- 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 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 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.
- Represented KeyBank in connection with its $23.85 million loan for the acquisition of two industrial properties in Lugoff, South Carolina.
- Represented a shopping center REIT specializing in retail in its sale of an enclosed mall in West Virginia for $12.5 million.
- Represented The Mid-America Management Corporation in its acquisition of a shopping center in northeast Ohio for more than $12 million.
- Represented a metal manufacturer in the sale of an industrial warehouse in Ohio for over $6 million.