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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
  • 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

Related Capabilities

Real Estate