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Matt Schoenfeld

Associate, Corporate Department

New York

Phone: 1(212) 318-6745
Fax: 1(212) 319-4090

Overview

Matthew Schoenfeld is a senior associate in the Corporate practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s New York office.

Mr. Schoenfeld’s practice primarily focuses on securities and capital markets. He represents public and private companies and financial institutions in a range of corporate matters, including public and private offerings of equity and debt securities, securities law and corporate governance matters for public companies, and other matters of general corporate law.

Mr. Schoenfeld received his law degree from Fordham University School of Law in 2015, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Fordham Journal of Corporate and Financial Law and a teaching assistant for first year legal writing. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in History magna cum laude from Colgate University in 2009. Mr. Schoenfeld is admitted to practice law in New York.

Recognitions

  • Best Lawyers in America, Ones to Watch in Securities/Capital Markets Law (2023, 2024) and Real Estate Law (2024)

Representations

  • Gaming and Leisure Properties, Inc. (Nasdaq: GLPI) in numerous offerings of common stock and senior notes, including:
    • Establishment of $1.0 billion continuous at-the-market equity offering
    • Multiple senior notes offerings totaling approximately $2.4 billion
    • Multiple common stock offerings totaling approximately $300 million
  • Medical Properties Trust, Inc. (NYSE: MPW) in numerous offerings of common stock and senior notes, including:
    • Multiple senior Eurobond, sterling and USD notes offerings totaling approximately €1.3 billion, £1 billion, and $1.3 billion, respectively
    • Establishment of $1.0 billion continuous at-the-market equity offering
  • Cedar Realty Trust, Inc. (formerly NYSE: CDR) in numerous offerings of common and preferred stock and its $1.2 billion sale of the company and its assets to affiliates of DRA Advisors in a series of all-cash transactions, followed by a merger combination with Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust
  • Underwriting syndicate in numerous offerings of common and preferred stock and senior notes of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: DLR), including:
    • Establishment of $1.5 billion continuous at-the-market equity offering
    • Multiple senior notes offerings totaling approximately $1.0 billion
    • Multiple common stock offerings totaling approximately $2.4 billion
    • Multiple preferred equity offerings totaling approximately $200 million
  • DCT Industrial Trust Inc. (formerly NYSE: DCT) in numerous offerings of common stock and its $8.4 billion sale to Prologis (NYSE: PLD)
  • G Squared Ascend I Inc. (formerly NYSE: GSQD) in its $300 million initial public offering and proposed business combination with Transfix, Inc.
  • Prime Impact Acquisition I (NYSE: PIAI) in its proposed business combination with Cheche Technology, Inc.
  • Fundrise, Cottonwood and Tryperion in multiple non-traded public REIT initial public offerings under Regulation A

Practice Areas

Securities and Capital Markets

Real Estate Capital Markets


Languages

English


Admissions

New York Bar


Education

Fordham University School of Law, J.D. 2015

Colgate University, B.A. 2009