Mr Paul Mattingly > Seyfarth Shaw LLP > Atlanta, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Mr Paul Mattingly

Work Department
Real Estate
Position
Partner
Career
Paul is the national chair of the Real Estate department. During his tenure as chair, the Real Estate department has grown to be one of the five largest commercial real estate practices in the United States. The department regularly handles the largest and most complex real estate and real estate finance transactions.
As a practitioner, Paul leads teams that serve institutional real estate clients in transactions across the United States, including a real estate finance team that has closed loans having a value in excess of $6 billion in each of the last three years, and a leasing and development team that represents one of the world’s largest retailers on a national basis.
Paul has led the real estate department’s deployment of technology, process management, and innovative staffing models to provide exceptionally responsive service and value to our sophisticated clients. He was a long-time member of the firm’s executive and compensation committees.
Education
- JD, University of Kentucky
With high distinction
Phi Beta Kappa
Kentucky Law Journal, articles editor - BA, University of Kentucky
With high distinction
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Real estate > Real estate
Seyfarth Shaw LLP‘s real estate department is regularly engaged by a wide range of clients to handle matters ranging from acquisitions and dispositions to financing work, developments, and lease agreements. The practice’s client list is varied, featuring large commercial and investment banks, public and private pension funds, and life insurance companies. The firm has formed specialty areas within the practice, including the data center services, healthcare real estate and finance, and distressed situations groups. The team is led by Paul Mattingly, who is national chair of the real estate department based out of the Atlanta office; he leads teams that serve institutional real estate clients in transactions across the US. Catherine Burns chairs the Boston real estate practice, and is co-chair of the development practice group, representing clients in all aspects of investment transactions and touching upon every major asset class. Also in Boston is Eric Greenberg, who is co-chair of the firm’s leasing practice and focuses on commercial, retail, and office leasing issues.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Government > Government contracts
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Industry focus > Cannabis
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious