Matthew Fogt 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 Matthew’s expertise 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 Matthew’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
Matthew advises clients on a broad range of issues including the California Environmental Quality Act, 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. Matthew also regularly advises several clients regarding prevailing wage issues and complex CC&Rs and easements. Matthew is skilled at public hearings and working with government agencies to obtain necessary approvals for his clients' projects.
Personal Interests
Matthew resides in Irvine with his wife and five children. He volunteers with the Boy Scouts of America and his church's youth program. He is also a coach for youth soccer, football, and softball teams.
Prior to law school, Matthew worked for the United States Forest Service on planning issues. During law school, Matthew was an editor on the Brigham Young University Law Review, President of the Natural Resource Law Society, Civil Chair of the Government and Politics Legal Society, a counselor in the Academic Success Program, and a pupil in the American Inns of Court.
During law school, Matthew externed for the Honorable Matthew B. Durrant of the Utah Supreme Court, the Honorable Bruce S. Jenkins of the United States District Court for the District of Utah, and for the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Utah.
More Legal and Business Bylines From Matthew R. Fogt
- Three New California Laws to Facilitate Housing Production - (Posted On Friday, March 18, 2022)
- Judicial Council Amends Prior Emergency Rule to Adjust Land Use Litigation Deadlines - (Posted On Friday, May 29, 2020)
- Multifamily Owners: New Laws Provide Opportunity to Add Units - (Posted On Saturday, January 25, 2020)
- California Building Owners and Contractors: Act before January 1, 2018, to Minimize Risks of Non-Paying Subcontractors - (Posted On Tuesday, October 17, 2017)
- New Legislation (AB 802) To Replace Existing Energy Use Disclosure Law (AB 1103) - (Posted On Friday, October 23, 2015)
- City in California Ordered to Refund $10.5 Million in Beach Parking Fees - (Posted On Tuesday, September 01, 2015)
- California Energy Commission Considering Changes to Ongoing AB 1103 Energy Benchmarking and Disclosure Requirements - (Posted On Sunday, May 10, 2015)
- California Energy Commission Delays AB 1103 Energy Benchmarking and Disclosure Requirements for 2 Years for Buildings Between 5,000 and 10,000 Square Feet - (Posted On Monday, August 25, 2014)
- California: Delayed AB 1103 Energy Benchmarking and Disclosure Requirements Set To Go Into Effect In January 2014 - (Posted On Wednesday, November 27, 2013)
- California Commercial Building Owners Must Disclose Energy Usage of the Building During Sale, Lease or Financing after July 1, 2013 - (Posted On Monday, April 29, 2013)