Matthew J. Norton
South Carolina
K&L Gates LLP
134 Meeting Street
Suite 500
Charleston, SC 29401
Tel: +1.843.579.5634
Email:
matthew.norton@klgates.com
Web:
www.klgates.com
Matt Norton is the lead practice area leader for real estate at K&L Gates. He is a founding partner of the firm’s Charleston, SC office and spearheads the firm’s global resort, hospitality and leisure practice area. He also chairs the firm’s Caribbean practice affinity group and has worked extensively throughout Latin America and the Caribbean basin.
Matt maintains an international practice and concentrates his practice in the areas of corporate and real estate related transactions and financings, cross-border investment, and commercial and residential real estate development, with a particular focus on resort and hospitality transactions and projects. He has recently or is currently assisting clients with the sale, acquisition, development, repositioning, and/or financing of projects in the United States, Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, and Asia.
Matt regularly represents clients in structuring and documenting resort, urban, and other planned and mixed-use communities, which may include condominiums, condo hotels, shared ownership products, private clubs, golf courses, hotels, beach amenities and clubs, marinas, spas, and public use spaces.
Matt has significant experience working in hotel law, including the preparation and negotiation of hotel management agreements, franchise and license agreements, along with hotel sales and financings. Matt also has extensive experience working with public REITS and has handled a significant amount of transactional and development work for both a publicly traded golf REIT and publicly traded medical office REIT.
Matt is included in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers, The Best Lawyers in America, South Carolina Super Lawyers list, and has maintained a Martindale Hubbell AV Rating since 2001. He has also been the author of the South Carolina chapter of the Chambers Real Estate USA Regional Guide since 2019.
Matt is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the University of South Carolina School of Law, where he was the Editor in Chief of the South Carolina Law Review.
Real estate attracts institutional investors from around the globe into all types of property markets and sectors. We have a large, highly diversified Real Estate practice with lawyers around the world.
Our practice is fully integrated, with lawyers working seamlessly across disciplines and offices to provide a full range of services on local, national, and international transactions and projects. Our Real Estate cross-disciplinary team is available to guide clients through complex transactions, enabling them to fully capitalize on real estate investment opportunities.
Areas of Focus
- Commercial Ownership, Leasing, and Management
- Distressed Real Estate
- Economic Incentives
- Land Use, Planning, and Zoning
- Real Estate Acquisitions and Dispositions
- Real Estate Development and Construction
- Real Estate Finance
- Real Estate Joint Ventures
Our Real Estate practice and lawyers are consistently ranked in regions across the globe in real estate and related practices by Chambers, The Legal 500, U.S. News-Best Lawyers, and U.S. News-Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms.”
Located across five continents, we represent a broad array of leading global corporations in every major industry, capital markets participants, and ambitious middle-market and emerging growth companies. We also serve public sector entities, educational institutions, philanthropic organizations, and individuals. Our lawyers counsel clients on their most sophisticated legal challenges in all areas of corporate and regulatory law as well as litigation.
We are leaders in legal issues relating to industries critical to the economies of both the developed and developing worlds—technology, manufacturing, energy, transportation, telecommunications, financial services, and life sciences, among others.
“Matthew Norton handles a wide range of transactions relating to the acquisition, financing and development of commercial real estate, with particular emphasis on hotels and leisure facilities.”