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Matthew Peters
Partner Corporate & Finance
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
Matthew Peters advises investors, developers and corporate clients on corporate real estate and real estate private equity transactions. He supports clients on acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, and corporate restructurings and reorganisations across a range of real estate assets.
His practice includes advising on transactions involving hotel portfolios, residential, healthcare, student accommodation, logistics and retail assets, with a particular focus on development-led projects. He works with both UK and international clients and regularly supports complex cross-border transactions.
Matthew also advises on the structuring and execution of investment platforms and joint venture arrangements, providing commercially focused advice aligned to clients’ strategic and operational objectives. He is recognised for his ability to advice on complex hotel management arrangements and on high value transactions both in the UK, EMEA and internationally. With clients stating that “Matthew is exceptional counsel. He's highly experienced in any sensitivities and capable of understanding the pulls and levers of negotiating wider commercial implications.”
Recognition
- Chambers UK – Hotels and Leisure (UK-wide): Up and Coming (2026)
- Chambers UK – Hotels and Leisure: Associate to Watch (2024–2025)
- Chambers UK – Real Estate £150m and above (London): Associate to Watch (2021–present)
- Legal 500 UK – Real Estate: Commercial Property Investment: Leading Associate (2021–present)
- Legal 500 UK – Property Finance: Key Lawyer (2026)
Representative experience
Advising a Bain Capital/Stoneweg Capital JV on the hotel and development management arrangement for the Kimpton Los Monteros Resort in Marbella, Spain.
Advising a Goldman Sachs/Highgate Hotels joint venture on the disposal of the pan-European 10-hotel K+K portfolio for over US$550m.
Advising a leading global real estate investment firm on the co-investment financing of a £200m luxury residential development project in North Hampstead, London.
Advising a Meyer Bergman JV on the Hotel PE aspects of the £1bn acquisition of the Whiteleys development project in Bayswater, including negotiations with Six Senses.
Advising a Mohari/Omnam Group joint venture on the corporate acquisition and refinancing of the Bauer Hotel development project in Venice, Italy.
Advising Attestor Capital on management and franchise arrangements with Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group for the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Lake Como.
Advising a UK-based property development group (real estate portfolio in excess of £2bn) on a fundamental corporate reorganisation and demerger.
Advising Bank of Montreal on the real estate aspects of its US$615m bridge financing to Alpha Auto Group for its acquisition of Lookers plc.
Advising Citigroup on its proposed underwriting of Sun Communities' £900m acquisition of Park Holidays' UK-wide 40-site leisure park portfolio.
Advising Evans Randall on the £375m corporate sale of Riverbank House, London to Oxygen Asset Management.
Advising Evelyn Partners on the real estate aspects of the creditors' voluntary arrangement for Group First's UK-wide airport car parking portfolio.
Advising Lenox Investments on hotel and development management arrangements for the Marriott W Hotel and Edition Resort in Israel.
Advising Omnam Group on hotel and development management arrangements for the Four Seasons in Puglia, the Baccarat Hotel in Florence, and the dual-branded Sheraton-Moxy at ‘Les Mercuriales' in Paris.
Advising Reuben Brothers on hotel and development management arrangements for the Corinthia Hotel in Rome and the Mondrian Hotel in London.
Advising Starwood Capital on its €200m Spanish multi-hotel portfolio sale to a Meliá-Banca March joint venture.
Advising Starwood Capital on the corporate sale of 12 U.K. hotels (Principal Hotel Company) to Foncière des Murs for over US$1bn (winner of Hot.E Deal of the Year 2018).
Advising STT Telemedia on the acquisition of Virtus Data Centres for over £225m.
Advising the Bain Capital/Omnam Group JV on hotel and development management projects for the Marriott Edition (Lake Como), Radisson Blu (Florence), and Park Hyatt (Rome).
Advising the Cerberus Capital Management/Highgate Hotels joint venture on its acquisition of the Dorsett Hotel in Aldgate, London.
Advising Tristan Capital on the acquisition of a UK-wide retail park portfolio for over £250m.
Credentials
Education
- M.A., University of Oxford
- Legal Practice Course, College of Law, London, with distinction
Bar admissions and qualifications
- Solicitor, England and Wales