Matthew Kidd

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Matthew A. Kidd is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of Gibson Dunn’s Real Estate Practice Group. He advises clients on a wide range of matters, including acquisitions, dispositions, financings, joint ventures, preferred equity investments, as well as development transactions. Matthew’s finance experience includes representing both borrowers and lenders in the origination of different types of debt such as construction financings, balance sheet loans and mortgage/mezzanine loans, as well as intercreditor and co-lender arrangements. He also advises clients in connection with workouts and restructurings of debt. Matthew’s transactions take place both in New York and throughout the United States and involve a variety of asset classes, including office, retail, residential and hotel properties. Matthew has also handled a number of international matters.

Matthew is recognized as a leading real estate lawyer in New York by Chambers USA. He is also recognized in Lawdragon's 500 Leading Global Real Estate Lawyers in 2024 and 2025.

Highlights of Matthew’s experience include representing:

- MSD Partners in numerous mortgage and mezzanine loans along with related intercreditor and co-lender arrangements, participation agreements, and back-leverage transactions;

- Apollo in numerous acquisitions of net leased properties;

- Derby Lane Partners in the origination of various construction and conversion loans;

- Strategic Value Partners in a variety of financings, acquisitions and joint venture transactions;

- Sculptor Capital Management in numerous bespoke structured financing and preferred equity investments; and

- Logistics Property Company, as the GP, in the formation and fund-raising of their funds for development of logistics assets.

Personal

JD, Order of the Coif, University of Southern California, 2001; Bachelor of Arts, University of California, Berkeley, 1992.