Matt Fogt

Partner at Allen Matkins

Speaker

MATTHEW R. FOGT

PARTNER | ORANGE COUNTY

T (949) 851-5453

E mfogt@allenmatkins.com

Matt is a multidimensional dealmaker. He combines land use, real estate, environmental, natural resource, and energy law knowledge with business acumen, negotiation skills, and rigor to address California real estate development projects from all angles. He works to get the best terms and provisions in land use entitlements and real estate transactions while managing client investment and project constraints, and takes the necessary steps to ensure his clients’ developments can proceed in a timely manner, following acquisition.

EFFICIENCY AND VALUE

The breadth of Matt’s experience provides unique efficiency and value for serious developers. Clients such as Rockefeller Group, Five Point Communities, Irvine Company, Kilroy Realty, Goodman, Regent Properties, MBK, and dozens more public and private entities rely on Matt’s multiple talents when acquiring, financing, entitling, developing, or redeveloping a broad range of asset types—from master-planned communities, commercial properties (office, industrial, retail), apartments, renewable energy facilities, and mixed-use projects, to airports, resource extraction, self-storage, and auto dealerships.

FULL-SERVICE AND STRATEGY

Matt advises clients on a broad range of issues including the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), state and federal resource permits, subdivision mapping, public finance, affordable housing, environmental restrictions, impact fee disputes, utility service, eminent domain, construction and consultant agreement, conservation easements, and development agreements, to name a few. He also regularly advises clients regarding prevailing wage issues and complex CC&Rs and easements. Matt is skilled at public hearings and working with government agencies to obtain necessary approvals for his clients' projects.

EDUCATION

Brigham Young University, J.

Reuben Clark Law School (J.D., magna cum laude) University of Utah (B.S.)

SERVICES

Land Use

Construction Contracts

Eminent Domain & Valuation

Environmental & Natural

Resources

Commercial Real Estate

Transactions

Real Estate Joint Ventures & Equity Investments

INDUSTRIES

Real Estate

Construction

Telecommunications

Infrastructure

Residential & Multifamily

Shopping Center, Retail & Mixed-Use