Matthew Olhausen advises clients on various types of 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 and external sources, selling an affiliated minor league team, and negotiating various leases.
  • 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.

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  • 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 twenty-one-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 multi-phase 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 a regional bank in a series of asset-based lending transactions.
  • 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

  • San Francisco Housing Action Coalition, Regulatory Committee Member

  • San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research, Member

  • Urban Land Institute, Member

  • Pride Law Fund, Board Member

Education

  • J.D., University of California, Hastings College of the Law, 2018
    magna cum laude, Order of the Coif

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

Admissions

  • California

Languages

  • Spanish