Profile
As a shareholder in the London Tax team, Matthew’s practice focuses on the tax aspects of private investment funds and private equity real estate (PERE). He handles the full spectrum of tax matters relating to private investment funds and PERE, including fund structuring and formation, secondaries, joint ventures, UK REITs within private fund platforms, corporate real estate M&A, and real estate financings.
Matthew’s representative matters include advising: on major fundraisings for pan-European funds; PERE sponsors on structuring for UK REITs under private funds; leading private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies on big-ticket M&A; and GP-led secondaries across sectors such as real estate, technology, health care, and infrastructure. He also has a wealth of experience in advising insurers in relation to underwriting of tax risk insurance policies and tax aspects of W&I insurance policies.
He is recognised in the Chambers UK 2026 guide for Tax for the sixth consecutive year, ranked as ‘Up and Coming’, with clients noting: “Matthew is very good at dealing with tax points and negotiating. He was very helpful, commercial and very much on-point.”
Concentrations
- Direct and indirect tax
- Private funds
- Investment funds
- Investment structures
- Joint ventures
- Acquisitions and disposals of equity, real estate and debt
- Real estate investment and development
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주요 경력
- Ares on the structuring and fundraising for a number of its European real estate funds and related co-investment vehicles, including its flagship opportunistic real estate equity fund – Ares European Real Estate Fund VI – which raised €2.24 billion (inclusive of co-investment).°
- ICG on a number of its European fundraisings, including its €8.1 billion eighth European Corporate fund, its €3.0 billion Europe Mid-Market Fund II and its €3.15 billion Infrastructure Fund II.°
- Clarion Partners Europe on the formation of its £427 million core-plus closed-ended UK logistics fund.°
- Ares Secondaries Group as lead investor on multiple GP-led secondary transactions in the real estate sector, and as lead investor or syndicate investor on a number of GP-led secondary matters in the infrastructure and private equity sectors.°
- Kennedy Wilson on its £1 billion programmatic joint venture with CPP Investments to invest in UK single-family housing assets.°
- Orange Capital Partners in connection with the acquisition of 89.9% of the corporate structure holding a German residential portfolio valued at €422.5M, including in relation to its joint venture with One Investment Management Ltd, and various related management arrangements.°
- A European investment manager on its disposal of controlling interests in, and the recapitalisation by Cedar Capital Partners and an Ares Management Real Estate Secondaries Fund of, a portfolio of leading lifestyle hotels located in key European gateway cities.°
- Several major real estate fund mangers on structuring of UK REITs under private funds, including on associated restructurings to move existing assets into UK REITs and asset-level joint ventures with operating partners.°
- Multiple major W&I insurers in relation to underwriting of tax risk insurance and W&I insurance policies.°
° The above representations were handled by Mr. Birchall prior to him joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
수상 및 주요 활동
- Listed, Chambers Global Guide, "Up and Coming," Tax, 2026
- Listed, Chambers UK Guide, 2021-2026
- "Up and Coming," Tax, 2026
- "Associates to Watch," Tax, 2021-2025
학력 및 자격사항
- Legal Practice Course, University of Law
- LL.B. (Hons), University of Bristol
- England and Wales