Matt Olhausen | Lawyer

Matthew Olhausen advises clients on complex commercial transactions, with an emphasis on serving clients in the real estate, construction and professional sports industries.

Matt has represented a wide variety of clients, including publicly traded U.S. companies, private real estate funds, overseas investors entering the U.S. market, federal, state and local government agencies, professional sports teams, family offices and major pension funds. Matt’s representative experience spans joint ventures, financings of various types, land use and entitlements for ground-up construction projects, acquisitions and dispositions, public-private partnerships, pooled CMBS investments, affordable and workforce housing projects, renewable energy projects and commercial leasing, among other matters.

Representative Experience

Advised a Major League Baseball franchise on corporate, finance and real estate matters, including negotiating several major credit facilities, raising additional capital from both internal sources and external private equity investors, selling an affiliated minor league team, acquiring a new business segment, and negotiating various leases.
Represented client developing various master-planned data center and associated critical infrastructure projects across several thousand acres in New Mexico and Texas, including acquiring undeveloped land, structuring various tiers of joint ventures, preparing investor subscription documentation, and negotiating financing and power purchase arrangements.
Assisted major international steel company in conducting its United States site selection process for its first domestic green steel manufacturing facility and negotiating key agreements for multibillion-dollar state and local incentives, real estate acquisitions, and engineering, procurement and construction.

Represented major state pension fund in its due diligence and acquisition of numerous industrial and retail properties across the country, including in California, Arizona, Colorado, Minnesota, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Florida, and it its entitlement and construction of new ground-up industrial projects in Georgia, Louisiana and Missouri.

Represented client in acquiring a significant equity interest in the Treasure Island Development Project’s master developer entity and acquiring and entitling subsequent vertical development projects on Treasure Island in San Francisco, California.

Advised one of America’s largest school districts on its response to the COVID-19 pandemic and on its “Return to School Program,” which entailed reopening over 1,000 school sites for 650,000 students and 70,000 faculty and staff; the effort included providing regulatory guidance and negotiating a wide variety of contracts with state and local governmental agencies, diagnostic laboratories, testing and vaccination services providers, community health clinics, and other key stakeholders.

Advised client on the potential acquisition of a significant equity interest in a Major League Soccer expansion franchise, including reviewing and negotiating organizational documents, joint venture agreements, financing commitments, stadium acquisition and development agreements, and governmental and MLS approvals.

Assisted client on the acquisition and financing of various solar projects located in the Central Valley region of California.

Drafted and negotiated architect and construction agreements on behalf of a pro bono client for the design and construction of the 21-court Golden Gate Park Tennis Center in San Francisco, California.

Advised client on purchasing and financing a 28-story Class A office tower in San Francisco’s East Cut neighborhood.

Assisted client with negotiating and closing a $169 million loan-on-loan transaction.

Assisted major pension fund with selling multiple ground-leased-low-income-housing-tax-credit-financed apartment projects in Los Angeles, California and advised on various matters concerning ongoing multiphase residential development projects in Sacramento, California, Phoenix, Arizona and Brentwood, California.

Represented client on the sale of its historic Chinatown headquarters building in Los Angeles, California to an international developer, including the negotiation of a recordable negative covenant to preserve the historically significant original building, a leaseback agreement, a prominent rooftop signage lease, and a carryback loan to be made by the client to the developer.

Advised pro bono client on various entitlement, real estate and community engagement matters relating to the 32,000-square-foot expansion of its existing food bank warehouse, to create capacity to feed an additional 300,000 people per year throughout the Bay Area.

Assisted client with structuring and documenting executive participation programs for multiple real estate investment funds.

Represented client in securing a construction loan for a 162-unit residential project located on Capitol Mall in Sacramento, California.

Assisted client with navigating the Visual Artist Rights Act and California’s Art Protection Act when renovating and/or negotiating the removal of large murals and sculptures at various properties in Los Angeles, California.

Represented client in the disposition of Silicon Valley office complex containing several hundred thousand square feet of Class A office space.

Professional Highlights

Affiliations and Associations

NAIOP San Francisco Bay Area Chapter, YPG Committee Member
San Francisco Housing Action Coalition, Regulatory Committee Member
San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research, Member

Urban Land Institute, Member

Marin Montessori School, Trustee

Education

J.D., University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, 2018
magna cum laude; Order of the Coif; Pro Bono Distinction

B.A., Gonzaga University, 2013
magna cum laude

Admissions

California

Languages

Spanish

Matthew Olhausen

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