Matt Carney

Director of Acquisitions at LightWell-Keystone

Speaker

Matt is a Co-Founder & Partner of LWK, co-leading the firm’s acquisitions, strategic partnerships and capital relationships. Matt has 10+ years of real estate private equity, corporate private equity and investment banking experience. Prior to LWK, Matt was Director of Acquisitions at a Chicago-based family office with ~$500 million of real estate assets under management, where he opened the LA office and founded and led the firm’s net lease industrial strategy and other opportunistic co-investments.

Prior thereto, Matt was a Private Equity Associate at Ares Management (NYSE: ARES), a leading global alternative asset manager with over $450 billion under management. While at Ares, Matt evaluated acquisitions, divestitures, and special situations investments across industries and across the capital structure. Matt also served as a Board Observer for Ares portfolio companies.

Matt began his career as an investment banking analyst in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in New York, where he worked on mergers, acquisitions and restructurings across industries. Matt graduated with Honors from the University of Pennsylvania.