Matthew L. Friedrich

matthew.friedrich@lw.com

+1.213.891.8112

Profile

Matthew Friedrich advises clients on a wide range of commercial real estate transactions across asset classes and geographies.

Mr. Friedrich helps private equity investors, family offices, institutional investment advisors, REITs, and real estate companies navigate:

Programmatic and single-asset joint ventures
Acquisitions and dispositions
Financings

Mr. Friedrich has spent his entire career in the commercial real estate industry, including working as a broker prior to his legal practice. He leverages more than two decades of real estate experience and longstanding industry relationships.

He serves on the board of Make-a-Wish Greater Los Angeles and is a member of the Jewish Federation Los Angeles Real Estate and Construction (REC) Network.

Experience

Mr. Friedrich’s recent experience includes advising:

A real estate operator and developer in connection with the formation of a programmatic joint venture for the acquisition of industrial properties located in Northern and Southern California and Washington State
A global asset manager in connection with the acquisition and formation of a programmatic joint venture for investment in self-storage properties
A global asset manager in connection with the acquisition, financing, and formation of a joint venture for investment in a cold storage portfolio
A publicly traded multi-family REIT in connection with the financing and formation of a joint venture for the recapitalization of an existing multi-family residential portfolio
A publicly traded multi-family REIT in connection with the acquisition, financing, and formation of a joint venture for investment in an existing multi-family residential portfolio
A family office in connection with the formation of a programmatic joint venture to make multi-family bridge loans in the Tri-State area
One of California’s largest privately held companies in connection with the formation of a joint venture for a ground-up development industrial project

Qualifications

Bar Qualification

California

Education

JD, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, 2009
magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, Sayre MacNeil Scholar
BA, University of California, Los Angeles, 2003
cum laude