Matthew N. Hudnall

Matt is a Shareholder in Maynard Nexsen’s Real Estate practice group and Private Markets practice group and is the Managing Shareholder of the Dallas office. With more than 30 years of experience in real estate law, Matt has handled and managed the legal aspects of a variety of complex real estate transactions, joint ventures, investment fund vehicles, and other real estate-related matters throughout the United States, including:

• land acquisition, including large land assemblages
• land development
• commercial and residential lot development
• entitlement enhancement
• infrastructure development and implementation
• acquisition of improved real property, including office, retail, multifamily, industrial, self-storage, and other types of commercial property
• disposition of improved and unimproved real property
• commercial leasing, representing both landlords and tenants
• entity-level and project-level financing, representing both borrowers and lenders
• structuring and negotiating real estate investment and development joint ventures, and drafting partnership and limited liability company agreements
• formation of real estate equity and debt investment funds and associated co-investment vehicles and subsidiary entities

Matt also provides general counsel services to certain real estate investment clients.

Before joining Maynard in 2019 to open the firm’s first Texas office, for 15 years Matt served as General Counsel for a Dallas-based real estate investment fund manager and also served as President of Hudnall P.C., a former Dallas-based law firm focused on real estate and real estate joint ventures and investment funds. Earlier in his career, Matt was a shareholder in the real estate practice group of Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C. (now Winstead PC).

Matt is a Dallas native and a 1990 magna cum laude graduate of Vanderbilt University, where he majored in economics and was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society. He received his law degree from Vanderbilt Law School in 1994 and is licensed to practice law in Texas and Florida.

Matt recently completed a 3-year term serving on the Board of Directors of The Real Estate Council of Dallas, and early in his career he was a member of the Associate Leadership Council of that organization, which represents more than 625 commercial real estate companies in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Matt also has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America© for his expertise in Real Estate Law each year beginning in 2022 and, early in his career, he was recognized as a “Texas Rising Star” in the Texas Super Lawyers edition of Texas Monthly magazine. Also, during his tenure as General Counsel of a Dallas-based real estate investment fund manager, Matt was featured in the “In-House Texas” section of Texas Lawyer.

Recognition

• Best Lawyers in America© for Real Estate Law (2022 - present)