Profile
Matthew L. Capelli represents institutional real estate investors, funds, developers, and joint ventures in complex transactions in the commercial real estate sector. His practice encompasses a wide range of matters, including acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, financings, and development of industrial, distribution, office, data center, self-storage, and mixed-use properties across the United States.
Capabilities
Experience
- Represented private equity firm in its $234 million acquisition and $157 million financing of a 1.8 million-square-foot, 12-building industrial logistics distribution facility in Houston, Texas.°
- Represented private equity firm in its $140 million acquisition and $92 million financing of four industrial properties in the central Florida market.°
- Represented private equity firm in its $105 million sale of four industrial properties consisting of 657,000 square feet of rentable space located in Dallas, Texas. °
- Represented private equity firm in its $43.5 million acquisition of industrial property in Houston, Texas.°
- Represented student housing operator and developer in its $600 million programmatic joint venture for the acquisition and development of student housing.°
- Represented private equity firm in various aspects of its $1.45 billion credit facility, including the add on of over 150 retail, bank branch, gas station, and warehouse properties across the United States.°
- Represented private equity real estate investment firm in its $159 million acquisition of a 600,000-square-foot distribution facility located in Fort Worth, Texas.°
- Represented private equity real estate investment firm in its $250 million sale of the former Chicago Tribune Freedom Center printing plant, located in the River West neighborhood of Chicago, to Gaming and Leisure Properties, Inc.°
- Represented private equity real estate investment firm in its $711 million joint venture for the development of a 60 MW AI/HPC data center located in Northern Virginia.°
- Represented private equity real estate investment firm in its $48 million acquisition and leaseback of 10 bank branches located across Minnesota and Wisconsin.°
- Represented private equity real estate investment firm in a $64.8 million loan secured by a 330,000-square-foot industrial logistics distribution facility located in California.°
- Represented private equity real estate investment firm in a $69.1 million loan secured by an industrial facility located in Georgia.°
- Represented private equity real estate investment firm in a $100 million loan secured by an 830,000-square-foot distribution facility located in California.°
- Represented private equity real estate investment firm in a $420 million refinancing of 18 industrial properties.°
- Represented self-storage operator in its $485 million CMBS refinancing of 108 self-storage properties across nine states.°
- Represented private equity real estate investment firm in connection with its $224 million refinancing of 32 self-storage assets located across eleven states with its joint venture partner.°
- Represented private equity firm in its $35.5 million acquisition of a mixed-use office, research and development, and warehouse property located in San Jose, California.°
- Represented private equity firm in its modification of a $133.8 million loan secured by an office building located in Atlanta, Georgia.°
- Represented real estate operating company and investment manager focused on the development and acquisition of industrial properties in the United States and Europe, in a comprehensive reorganization of its company structure that created separate platforms for its fee-based management services and real estate equity holdings.°
°The above representations were handled by Mr. Capelli prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
Credentials
Education
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J.D., magna cum laude, University of Michigan Law School
- Order of the Coif
- Certificate of Merit in Corporate Finance
- Member, Michigan Business & Entrepreneurial Law Review
- B.B.A., Real Estate & Urban Land Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Admissions
- Illinois