Matt Posthuma

Partner
Chicago
About

Matt Posthuma focuses on the formation of private investment funds. Matt forms strategic relationships with real estate companies, asset managers, and financial institutions to create thoughtful solutions for their fundraising and investment needs.

He helps sponsors with open- and closed-end funds in a wide range of investment strategies, such as real estate (including core, value-add, and opportunistic), private equity, infrastructure, credit, hedge, and other alternative asset classes. He also works with clients on separate accounts, co-invests, joint ventures, club deals, and other investment transactions.

Matt collaborates with asset managers who invest around the world, with a particular emphasis on funds and other investments in Brazil, Mexico, and other parts of Latin America. 

Areas of FocusInvestment Management and FundsFinancial ServicesReal Estate
Bar admissionsIllinois

SELECT REPRESENTATIVE REAL ESTATE FUNDRAISING TRANSACTIONS

  • Represented ASB Capital Management in its open-end real estate fund, ASB Allegiance Real Estate Fund, L.P., and its value-add real estate fund, ASB Meridian Real Estate Fund II, L.P.
  • Represented BDT & MSD Partners in its real estate hospitality fund, MSD Boca Partners, L.P.
  • Represented BTG Pactual in BTG Pactual Open Ended Core U.S. Timberland Fund, L.P.
  • Represented CBRE Investment Management in CBRE Asia Value Partners IV; CBRE Europe Value Partners 2 SCSp, CBRE Strategic Partners U.S. Value 9, L.P., CBRE U.S. Core Partners, L.P., CBRE U.S. Development Partners 5. L.P.; CBRE U.S. Logistics Partners, L.P., CBRE Global Special Situations Fund SCSp, and CBRE Wood Partners Development 4, L.P.
  • Represented Fidelity Investments in Fidelity Japan Data Centers Fund L.P.
  • Represented Harbor Group International in HGI Opportunity Fund XVI, L.P.
  • Represented John Hancock / Manulife in its open-end real estate fund, Manulife U.S. Real Estate Fund, L.P.
  • Represented Longpoint Realty Partners in Longpoint Fund III, L.P. and Longpoint Specialty Grocer Fund I, L.P.
  • Represented Quartz Lake Capital in QL Multifamily Co-GP Fund, L.P. and QL Senior Secured Lender, L.P.
  • Represented RMR Group in its open-end real estate fund, RMR Office Property Fund
  • Represented Sculptor Capital Management in Sculptor Real Estate Tax Advantaged Credit Fund, Sculptor Real Estate Credit Fund II L.P., and Sculptor Real Estate Fund V L.P.
  • Represented SharpVue Capital in SharpVue Real Estate Partners II, L.P.
  • Represented Systima Capital Management in Systima Affordable Housing Credit Opportunities Fund III, L.P. 
  • Represented UBS Realty Investors in its real estate open-end funds, Trumbull Property Fund, L.P. and Trumbull Property Growth & Income Fund, L.P., its open-end debt fund, Trumbull Property Income Fund L.P., its closed-end cold storage fund, UBS Cold Storage Fund I, its open-end farmland fund, AgriVest Farmland Fund, Inc., and its bank collective trust real estate open-end fund, Trumbull Diversified Property Collective Fund
     
Languages
  • Spanish
  • English

AWARDS

  • Recognized, Capital Markets Latin America's Top 100 Lawyers, Latinvex, (2020 – 2025)
Education
  • J.D., Harvard Law School
    cum laude
  • A.B., Mathematics, University of Michigan
    summa cum laude

Publications

  • Quoted, "Distress, Opportunistic Fundraising Dries Up With Deals Failing to Materialize," Bisnow, November 19, 2024
  • Quoted, "Real Estate Debt Managers Mobilize for 'Gap Capital' Deals," FundFire, August 28, 2024
  • Quoted, "Higher Rate Cycle Dragging Down Capital Formation, Deployment," PERE Credit, August 12, 2024
  • Quoted, "Real Estate Fundraising Charts Slow Recovery," Law360, July 10, 2024
  • Quoted, "Fund Formation Law Firms See Increasing Customization," PERE, April 1, 2024
  • Author, "Key Limited Partnership Provisions During Market Downturns," Law360, June 7, 2023
  • Author, "Challenges of Capital Raising for Real Estate Co-Investments," The Investment Lawyer, August 2021
  • Co-author, "The Intersection of Private and Registered Funds: Interval Fund Investments in Private Open-End Real Estate Funds," The Investment Lawyer, August 2020

Seminars

  • Speaker, "Capital Raising in a Higher-for-Longer World," Winter Real Estate Private Funds, January 21, 2026
  • Speaker, "Real Estate Fund Market & Liquidity Expectations for 2025," Winter Forum on Real Estate Opportunity & Private Fund Investing, January 22, 2025
  • Speaker, "Structuring Private Real Estate Funds: Legal, Tax and Commercial Perspectives," Strafford Webinar, September 25, 2024
  • Speaker, "Fundraising Best Practices for Small-Medium-Sized Funds," Winter Forum on Real Estate Opportunity & Private Fund Investing, January 18, 2024
  • Speaker, "Advanced Issues in Fund Structuring and Transaction Security," Fund Finance Association University 2.0, October 5, 2023
  • Speaker, "Private Fund Side Letters," Strafford Webinar, July 18, 2023

Media Mentions

  • Mentioned, "Blue Vista, UBS, Extra Space Start $600M Self-Storage Venture," Law360, November 19, 2025
  • Mentioned, "DLA Piper Adds Partner To Investment Funds Practice," Law360, April 18, 2025
  • Quoted, "Distress, Opportunistic Fundraising Dries Up With Deals Failing To Materialize," Bisnow, November 19, 2024
  • Quoted, "Real Estate Debt Managers Mobilize for 'Gap Capital' Deals," FundFire, August 28, 2024
  • Quoted, "Higher rate cycle dragging down capital formation, deployment," PERE Credit, August 12, 2024
  • Quoted, "Real Estate Fundraising Charts Slow Recovery," Law360, July 10, 2024
  • Quoted, "Fund formation law firms see increasing customization," PERE, April 1, 2024

Prior Experience

Prior to joining DLA Piper, Matt was a real estate funds partner in the asset management practice of another major Am Law 50 international law firm.

Memberships and Affiliations

  • Member, Legal/Regulatory Committee, Pension Real Estate Association
  • Board of Trustees, Village of Hinsdale

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DLA Piper welcomes Matt Posthuma to the Investment Funds Practice

16 April 2025 .2 minute read

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+1 312 368 4060
(Work, Chicago)