Matthew Adler is responsible for MacFarlane Partners’ investment activities on the East Coast, which include sourcing, underwriting, negotiating and closing property investments, as well as cultivating business relationships with real estate operating/development companies and other market participants. He also oversees the construction process of development and redevelopment projects that are undertaken by the firm and its joint-venture partners in the region.

Career Overview

Matthew has 12 years of real estate investment and development experience, during which he has been involved with more than $5 billion in multifamily residential, commercial and mixed-use property investments in major metropolitan areas throughout the United States.

Among the investments that he has underwritten and/or overseen are The Shops at Columbus Circle, the retail component of the landmark Time Warner Center in New York City; Bay Street Emeryville, a mixed-use urban village developed on a former brownfield site in the San Francisco Bay Area; City Point, a planned mixed-use, high-rise redevelopment project in downtown Brooklyn, N.Y.; and Atelier, a high-rise residential condominium development in New York City.

Past Experience

Prior to joining MacFarlane Partners, Matthew worked in the investment banking division of Salomon Smith Barney. Working in the firm’s real estate and lodging practice, he assisted with merger-and-acquisition advisory assignments, corporate restructurings, and public/private capital formation for real estate operating companies and opportunity funds. Earlier, he worked in KPMG Peat Marwick’s economic consulting practice, focusing on companies in Latin America.

Professional Affiliations

• New York Real Estate Private Equity Network

• Real Estate Board of New York

• Urban Land Institute

Education

• Bachelor of Arts, Economics, Cornell University

• Master of Business Administration with concentrations in Finance and Management, Columbia Business School