Jones Day

Real Estate

Partner

Matt Peel has a broad, multidisciplinary real estate practice having acted for a range of clients from listed property companies, developers, operators, private equity, mainstream and alternative lenders, and investment managers across all asset classes, with particular recent experience of student housing and build to rent portfolio transactions for private equity clients such as CBRE IM, Goldman and KKR. Further examples of his work include acting on development schemes such as GPE’s development above the Elizabeth Line station at Hanover Square, and advising on the disposal of significant business and national portfolios of properties.

Matt has built a leading reputation in the senior living and health care real estate sector having acted for a number of the major developers/operators in the United Kingdom, including Riverstone, which is backed by Goldman Sachs. His work in this area includes leading a multidisciplinary team on the United Kingdom's largest single asset acquisition and acting for the borrower on the largest single asset financing. He also has in-depth experience in setting up and implementing operating platforms in this sector.

Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales

Nottingham Law School (Legal Practice Diploma 2005); University of Warwick (LL.B. 2004)