Wataru Matsuyasu


617.224.0622


Education

Georgetown University Law Center, JD, 2000

Yale University, BA, 1993


Wataru (Wat) Matsuyasu's practice focuses on real estate, affordable housing, and community development transactions.  He has worked with nonprofit and for-profit developers in the acquisition, development and (re)financing of a number of affordable housing and community development projects in Massachusetts.  He has also represented a national syndicator in a series of Low-Income Housing Tax Credit transactions around the country.  His real estate experience includes real property purchase and sale transactions, zoning and permitting matters, conveyancing, title insurance, leasing, condominiums, and contracting for design and construction services.

Prior to joining Klein Hornig, Wat worked as an associate at DLA Piper and Goulston & Storrs, P.C. in Boston, MA, Baker & Daniels LLP in Indianapolis, IN, and as a project manager with Preservation of Affordable Housing, Inc. (POAH) in Boston, MA.

BAR ADMISSIONS

  • Massachusetts
  • Indiana (inactive)
  • Represents a national syndicator in numerous Low-Income Housing Tax Credit transactions
  • Represents a national tax credit investor in numerous asset management transactions
  • Represented a national nonprofit developer in the acquisition, selective demolition, new construction and redevelopment of 173 affordable rental units, along with associated infrastructure development by the City of New Bedford
  • Represented a Massachusetts community development corporation in the acquisition of a former mill building complex, subdivision and establishment of a master condominium, and financing of 60 units of affordable rental housing with Low-Income Housing Tax Credits and Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credits
  • Represented a community health center in the financing and redevelopment of a former mill building complex, involving formation of a condominium, master lease and sublease, and New Markets Tax Credit and Historic Tax Credit financing
  • Represented a Massachusetts community development corporation in the acquisition and preservation (facilitated pursuant to MCL Chapter 40T) of a 32-unit affordable rental housing development
  • Represented a local YWCA agency in the financing and rehabilitation of a 103-unit SRO project, involving ground lease and sublease, restructuring of existing debt, and new debt and Historic Tax Credit equity financing
  • Represented a Massachusetts community development corporation in the acquisition, development and financing of a three-phase affordable rental housing project, involving the establishment of multiple condominiums and cross-easements
  • Represented a local settlement house in the acquisition, redevelopment and Historic Tax Credit financing of a building expanding the agency's services and programming
  • Represented a Massachusetts nonprofit developer and operator of affordable SRO units in a series of financing transactions
  • Represented a national nonprofit developer in a 140-unit project in Massachusetts involving a ground lease and sublease, refinancing and restructuring of the existing debt, and new debt and equity financing
  • Represented a Massachusetts community development corporation in the acquisition, development and financing of 20 affordable homeownership units
  • Represented a Massachusetts community development corporation in the acquisition of a former church building and the redevelopment and financing of 34 affordable rental units
  • Represented a joint venture of a local nonprofit and national nonprofit developer in the acquisition and refinancing of an 80-unit senior project in Massachusetts
  • American Bar Association, Member
  • Boston Bar Association, Member
  • The Haley House, Boston, MA, Board of Trustees (2007-present)
  • Lawyers Clearinghouse on Affordable Housing and Homelessness, Pro Bono Participant (2011-present)
  • United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley, Affordable Housing Review Panel (2014)
  • Presentation on legal structuring issues to competition participants, Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston (FHLBB), 2012 Affordable Housing Competition – 2012