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Matt Greeson

Washington, DC Office

Matt Greeson is a Member who focuses on complex real estate transactions, including transactions that combine affordable housing, market-rate residential, and commercial uses. He represents developers, property owners, investors, landlords, and tenants in the preparation and negotiation of a wide variety of real estate instruments and structures, including joint venture, financing, lease, and purchase-sale transactions. Matt closes transactions employing public-private partnership initiatives for acquisition and development and utilizing low-income housing tax credits, tax-exempt and conventional debt, and other private and public capital sources.

Selected Transactions

  • Representation of developers in the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia and across the country in mixed-use projects that include market-rate and affordable residential components as well as retail and other uses, including projects subject to ground leases from local governments and other public entities, and utilizing low-income housing tax credits, tax-exempt and conventional debt, and other private and public capital sources, and assisted by project-based HAP contracts and other similar rental assistance.
  • Representation of the purchasers and sellers of various apartment projects subsidized by various housing agencies including USDA Rural Development, HUD, and state tax credit agencies.
  • Representation of public housing authorities in major redevelopment initiatives including new construction, public housing conversions, and financing under HUD’s Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program.

Major Prior Work Experience

  • Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, Associate

Professional Associations

  • ABA Affordable Housing and Community Development Forum
  • DC Building Industry Association
  • Housing Association of Nonprofit Developers (HAND) (Program Committee)
  • Virginia Housing Alliance

Speaking Engagements

  • VHA Housing Credit Conference, October 15, 2024, "Mixed-Income Models: How Combining Market-Rate and Affordable Housing Can Boost Housing Production" panelist
  • AAREP DC, March 30, 2023, "Legal Panel: Zoning, TOPA, and More!" featured speaker
  • Bisnow, July 28, 2022, “DC Affordable Housing Summit” moderator
  • NH&RA, June 6, 2022, “Southwest DC Spotlight” panelist
  • Housing Association of Non-Profit Developers (HAND), June 3, 2021, “Creating Options for Seniors” moderator
  • Bisnow, April 23, 2020, “Maintaining Affordability During the Coronavirus” moderator
  • Housing Association of Non-Profit Developers (HAND), April 14, 2020, “Soup-to-Nuts: Year 15 and Year 30 Preservation Strategies, Structures, and Financing” moderator
  • DC Building Industry Association, October 1, 2019, “Opportunity Zone 101” presenter
  • VHA Housing Credit Conference, September 25, 2019, “Best Practices for Mixed Use Developments” presenter

Education

University of Virginia School of Law, J.D.

  • Executive Editor, Journal of Law and Politics

Colgate University, B.A. in History, magna cum laude

Bar Admission

District of Columbia

Virginia

Maine

Hometown

Leesburg, VA