Profile

Matthew focuses on commercial real estate with particular emphasis on acquisitions, sales, leasing and financing transactions. He has substantial experience representing banks, insurance companies and other major financial institutions as well as owners and developers of real property in connection with complex commercial real estate transactions, including the structuring, financing, acquisition, sale and development of commercial, industrial, office, residential, multi-family and mixed-use properties. His leasing practice includes office, industrial and retail properties.

Matthew has closed more than 100 multi-family syndicated transactions with a value of over $750 million. In many of these transactions, he guided and advised his clients through complicated like-kind exchange and tenancy-in-common structures.

Matthew is a frequent lecturer on issues related to real estate law, with topics including commercial and ground leasing, commercial mortgage financing, acquisitions and sales of real estate, multi-family development and condominiums and cooperative housing corporations. Prior to joining Bond, Matthew was a partner at Lazer, Aptheker, Rosella & Yedid.

  • New York State Bar Association
  • Connecticut Bar Association
  • Suffolk County Bar Association

  • Board Member, Advancement For Commerce Industry & Technology, Inc.
  • The Long Island Jewish North Shore University Hospital Child Life Program
  • Sunrise Day Camps, Co-Chair Sunrise Walks
  • The Institute for Student Achievement
  • The Nature Conservancy
  • The Alzheimer’s Association