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Matthew Ruffe is an associate practicing in the real estate investments & transactions group. Matt routinely advises private equity clients, funds and other financial institutions in a wide variety of commercial real estate matters across the capital stack, including joint ventures for real estate investments and acquisitions, dispositions, financings and recapitalizations of real estate assets. Clients rely on Matt for his commercial approach and his ability to coordinate complex, multi-party transactions to closing on accelerated timelines.
During law school, Matt served as the senior note development editor for the Boston University Law Review and as a judicial intern with the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
Experience
- Ongoing representation of a global investment and advisory firm in connection with the negotiation, structuring and formation of real estate joint ventures, funds and other “hybrid” type investments, involving transactions with multiple operating partners focused on both equity and debt-related assets located throughout the United States.
- Representation of a large investment fund in connection with multiple joint venture platforms to acquire, develop and lease data center sites located throughout the United States and Europe with an anticipated aggregate commitment of up to $750 million.
- Representation of Kering SA and Kering Americas, Inc. in connection with an approximately $900 million strategic real estate joint venture with an affiliate of Ardian US LLC relating to Kering’s flagship 115,000-square-foot, multi-level luxury retail property located on Fifth Avenue in New York City.
- Ongoing representation of a global private markets investment manager in the recapitalization of a number of office, industrial and multi-family real estate assets located throughout the United States, typically structured through joint venture arrangements, and the development, financing and disposition of such assets.
- Ongoing representation of Bain Capital Real Estate in connection with programmatic joint ventures, preferred share offerings and the acquisition, development and financing of real estate assets throughout the United States.
- Ongoing representation of leading publicly traded mortgage REITs and private real estate debt funds in negotiating master repurchase facilities, note-on-note facilities and secured warehouse facilities across from multiple major banks and insurance companies to finance commercial real estate loans secured by real estate in the United States.
- Representation of an international real estate investor in the negotiation of multi-tier joint venture structures to acquire real estate assets throughout the United States.
- Representation of an asset manager in connection with the strategic unwinding of a portfolio of real estate investments held by a global group of high-net-worth investors, coordinating complex multi-jurisdictional exit transactions.
- Representation of a portfolio company of a preeminent global asset manager on the structuring, negotiation and execution of a complex sale-leaseback of multi-tiered, ground-leased properties located in South Florida.