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

Mr. Friedrich helps private equity investors, operators, and developers navigate:

  • Programmatic and single-asset joint ventures
  • Acquisitions and dispositions
  • Financings

Before joining Latham, he was a partner in another global law firm’s Los Angeles office.

Mr. Friedrich’s experience includes advising:

Joint Ventures

  • A real estate fund on its entry into joint ventures formed to invest in commercial properties in Qualified Opportunity Zones*
  • A real estate operator and developer on entering a programmatic joint venture to acquire industrial assets in Southern California and the Pacific Northwest*
  • A real estate operator and developer on entering a co-general partner programmatic joint venture to acquire and develop residential projects across the United States*
  • A family office on entering multiple joint ventures to acquire and develop a last-mile distribution facility in Long Island City, Queens*

Acquisitions and Dispositions

  • Blackstone on its US$540 million acquisition of a 934,000-square-foot office building in Seattle, Washington*
  • A programmatic joint venture on acquiring industrial projects in Southern California*
  • A real estate operator and developer on acquiring an office project in Pasadena, California*
  • A real estate fund on acquiring and disposing of industrial properties in Chandler, Arizona, and Camarillo, California*
  • A real estate developer and operator on acquiring a retail project in Eagle Rock, California*
  • A real estate fund on acquiring multi-family projects in Phoenix, Arizona, and Pinellas Park, Florida*
  • A real estate fund on acquiring an office and retail portfolio in Northern Virginia*
  • A family office on acquiring and financing an office project in Chicago’s Fulton Market District*

Financings

  • A joint venture on acquiring, as well as bridge and construction financing for, industrial projects in Southern California*
  • A real estate operator and developer on acquiring, as well as bridge and construction financing for, an office project in Pasadena, California*
  • A real estate fund on obtaining mortgage financing to acquire and redevelop a mixed-use retail and multifamily residential project Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood*
  • A real estate fund on obtaining construction financing to develop a multi-family residential project in Salt Lake City, Utah*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham

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

Practices