Matthew Charles SommerMatthew CharlesSommer
Of Counsel, Real Estate
Matthew Sommer is of counsel in the Real Estate Department at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm's New York office. Matthew has broad-based experience in all types of real estate transactions, including financing, acquisitions and dispositions, joint venture formation and preferred equity investments. In particular, his practice focuses on representing lenders in a wide variety of transaction types, advising on mortgage and mezzanine debt and preferred equity structures for acquisition, refinancing and construction. He has considerable experience across all asset types, including data, office, multi-family, mixed-use and hospitality. His experience also includes workouts, restructurings, and distressed and performing loan sales.
An institutional lender in a $75 million single asset single borrower loan origination secured by an office building in Westwood, MA, for its conversion into life science laboratories, including a subordinate mezzanine loan.
A Japanese bank in its construction lending platform for various ground-up developments throughout the U.S., including, most recently, a $232 million New York construction loan for the ground-up construction of a luxury residential rental building in Brooklyn with an affordable housing component.