Matthew Jordan

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EDUCATION

ABOUT MATTHEW JORDAN

Matt is an accomplished real estate lawyer with 17 years of experience, including a primary role in over $35 billion in real estate transactions. Matt is currently a Partner at Longleaf Law Partners, a boutique real estate and finance law firm, where he leads transactions for the firm’s Charlotte office. Matt’s areas of expertise include acquisitions, dispositions, ground-up developments, joint ventures, loan originations, ground leases, and portfolio transactions. Matt also has extensive experience with borrower and lender-side representation on acquisition and construction loans, mezzanine loans, preferred equity investments, and note on note loans. Prior to joining Longleaf, Matt was a senior legal counsel at Kayne Anderson. While at Kayne, Matt closed over 200 transactions including programmatic joint venture agreements, acquisitions, portfolio dispositions and recapitalizations, ground-up developments, and both borrower and lender side financings. During this time, Matt focused on multifamily developments, student housing communities, senior housing communities, medical office buildings, and light industrial properties. Matt worked with the company’s in house legal team to create and maintain investment programs, including assisting with corporate structuring and negotiation of program documentation, creating and maintaining deal forms, and implementing policies and procedures for specific programs. Prior to joining Kayne Anderson, Matt was an associate at several national law firms in the Raleigh and Charlotte areas, where he represented local developers, REITs, sovereign wealth funds, and pension funds in the acquisition, disposition, and development of multifamily communities, office towers, and large bay industrial buildings. During this time, Matt focused on property diligence, purchase agreements, development contracts, borrower side financings, and quarterbacking the closing process for his transactions. He also assisted clients with retail, office, and industrial leases and asset management concerns and agreements.