Matthew H. Werthman

Matthew’s practice covers a broad range of commercial real estate-related practice areas, including portfolio acquisitions and sales, development deals, and leasing work covering retail, office and industrial transactions (both landlord and tenant-side). He regularly handles significant deals for high-rise office buildings, retail shopping centers, restaurants and U.S. corporate headquarters, as well as smaller, complex transactions.

Matt has led notable real estate transactions for Klehr, including:

• A deal recognized in several publications relating to Future Standard (formerly FS Investments) in connection with the relocation of its HQ office lease from the Philadelphia Navy Yard to Schuylkill Yards, with its new space comprising of approximately 120k square feet.
• A deal which was recognized in the Philadelphia Business Journal as its First Place winner in the Office (Lease) category of 2024 – Defender Association of Philadelphia’s Long-Term Lease Extension.
• A deal recognized in the Philadelphia Business Journal as its Second Place winner in the Industrial Sale category of 2021 – Pennsauken Logistics Center at 9000 River Road
• A deal recognized in Law360 relating to the sale of an approximately 300,000-square-foot Class A office building in West Conshohocken, PA.

Matt began his legal career at Klehr Harrison as a summer associate.

Author, “Calif. Commercial Lease Hardship Bill May Be Unconstitutional,” Law360, June 12, 2020

• Representation of a national award-winning Philadelphia marketing agency to its new office HQ in Philadelphia.
• Representation of a national private equity fund’s sale-leaseback transaction, which, at the time, was the largest retail sale leaseback in U.S. history
• Representation in the acquisition and financing of a 268-store department store chain portfolio and subsequent bulk dispositions
• Representation in the acquisition of designation rights to a real estate portfolio pursuant to 11 S.C. Section 363, which representation included the initial acquisition and financing of the portfolio and subsequent sales and leases.
• Representation of a landlord’s lease to a national restaurant tenant of approximately 25,000 square feet of space in a high-rise building in Philadelphia.
• Representation of a tenant’s lease of an 80,000-square-foot build-to-suit office building lease in the Navy Yard.
• Representation of a portfolio sale of student housing apartments (comprising 20 properties and 110+ units) in the University City section of Philadelphia.
• Representation in a sale of a 200+ unit apartment complex in the Manayunk section of Philadelphia.
• Representation in an acquisition, through a merger, of an international parking corporation and led the subsequent disposition of a 130+ portfolio of fee and ground-leased assets in one-off and multi-state portfolio sales.