Allen Matkins Adds Powerhouse Real Estate Team

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – June 3, 2024 – Allen Matkins announced today that a leading real estate transactional team is joining the firm across California, further bolstering the firm's joint venture, private equity and finance capabilities. The group includes Partners Dean Pappas, Jennifer Sung, Shaunt Kodaverdian, Senior Counsel Julia Lee, and Associate Brenn Coyle.

The group comprises award-winning, transactional focused lawyers whose practices encompass a broad range of real estate and corporate transactions, including joint ventures, complex equity recapitalization and corporate transactions, acquisition and disposition transactions, and financing transactions.

“The breadth, depth and brand of our real estate practice are unparalleled, and our ability to attract elite capital markets lawyers underscores the strength of our platform” said Tony Natsis, name partner and chair of the firm's Global Real Estate Group. “This is an extraordinary group, and their addition will further enhance our top-tier transactional real estate capabilities for our clients.”

A member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, Dean was recently included in the Los Angeles Business Journal's “Who’s Who in L.A. Law: Angelenos to Know in Real Estate Law” and has been listed as “Band” 1 in Chambers USA and highly ranked in U.S. News-Best Lawyers and The Legal 500 US in the area of Real Estate Law. Jennifer has been recognized by Chambers USA as one of the leading lawyers in California in Real Estate Law as well as The Legal 500 US 2022-2023.

“We are excited to add this accomplished and highly respected team of real estate professionals to the firm,” said Jeffrey Patterson, Allen Matkins' managing partner. “Not only does their extensive experience and complementary client base seamlessly integrate with our growth strategy, but their collegiality and record of having the highest ethics and integrity meld perfectly with our firm culture.”

The group joins Allen Matkins' growing real estate practice, which now includes more than 160 real estate transactional lawyers across California and New York, making it one of the largest and most diversified real estate groups in the country. The firm has worked with global industry powerhouses responsible for contributing to the development, innovation, and reshaping of the major U.S. real estate markets, having played a key role in the most high-profile real estate projects across the country.

“My colleagues and I are excited to be part of this dynamic team. Allen Matkins offers us a unique opportunity to leverage our collective expertise and enhance the level of service and bench that we can offer to our clients,” said Dean.

“Allen Matkins was an obvious choice for us given the firm's stellar reputation, but the most compelling attraction is the distinctive culture and vision for the future,” said Jennifer.

Shaunt added, “We are all thrilled to join Allen Matkins and look forward to embracing the firm's incomparable real estate platform to provide exceptional service to our clients.”

Dean, Jennifer, Shaunt, Julia, and Brenn join the firm from Goodwin Procter. Dean will serve as the Co-Leader of Allen Matkins' Real Estate Joint Ventures & Equity Investments Group.

ABOUT ALLEN MATKINS

Allen Matkins, a law firm with over 250 attorneys, was founded with deep roots in real estate and has leveraged that foundation to grow and build prominent litigation, corporate, tax, labor and employment, land use, and environmental practices allowing us to partner with clients across myriad industries and markets. For more than 45 years, Allen Matkins has worked with clients drawn to us by our reputation for market leading solutions, pragmatism, exemplary quality, approachability, and our unparalleled network of contacts and connections in business and government. For more information about Allen Matkins please visit www.allenmatkins.com.