Mateo Arias

Mateo represents clients in buying, selling, and financing all types of real property.

In today’s competitive real estate market, a deep understanding of the business needs of clients is required in order to create a successful partnership. Mateo regularly advises clients in practical, business-oriented solutions with the skills to handle the legal, strategic, and operational challenges presented by the real estate and capital markets.

Mateo represents both buyers and sellers in the negotiation and drafting of purchase and sales agreements, loan documents, entity organizational documents, joint venture agreements and all other relevant materials for a variety of commercial real estate deals. In addition, he has experience representing banks, insurers, and other lenders, as well as institutional investors and borrowers in a wide range of commercial lending transactions such as mortgage and mezzanine financing, CMBS loans, loan assumptions, loan restructuring, negotiated workouts, foreclosures, and deed in-lieu transactions.

Over nearly a decade, Mateo has worked on several billion dollars’ worth of real estate transactions on behalf of sellers, buyers, borrowers and lenders. From initial contact to transaction closing, his experience provides him with an understanding of all sides to a real estate transaction, which allows Mateo to be practical in finding legally sound solutions that meet the business needs of his clients. Mateo’s approach to his transactions starts by judiciously analyzing the issues, and is followed by considering all competing options, brainstorming ideas, and developing effective solutions that protect and benefit his clients.

Mateo enjoys being creative when negotiating deal terms, and takes pride in being a practical problem-solver. Most importantly, he works to build consensus among parties on both sides of the table so that everyone is satisfied with the outcome.