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D. Matthew Richardson

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D. Matthew Richardson is a partner in the Los Angeles office, a member of the Tax and Estate Planning Practice Group.

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Matthew has significant experience in mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, liquidations and spin-offs, complex financing, debt restructuring, real estate taxation, real estate investment trusts, joint ventures, partnerships and limited liability companies. He regularly counsels early-stage technology and other businesses with respect to various formation, operation and taxation issues. Matthew has provided tax advice on the initial qualification issues relating to entities electing to be treated as a Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduit (REMIC), as well as general tax advice on issues relating to the maintenance of an entity's REMIC status.

Matthew also has extensive experience in multigenerational wealth and business transfers and other estate planning matters. His estate and charitable planning clients include high-net-worth individuals and families with extensive real estate holdings and other closely held business interests. Matthew also counsels public charities and private foundations in connection with their formation and the tax and other legal issues arising in connection with their operation and management, and advises pension and governmental plans with respect to the tax issues arising in connection with the acquisition, ownership, and disposition of real estate.