Matthew N. Hudnall

Partner
Legal Assistant
Laura Avenson
P: 214.257.9817 lavenson@bradley.com

Matt Hudnall is a partner in Bradley’s Real Estate Practice Group and has 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 U.S., including:

  • Land acquisition, including large land assemblages
  • Land development
  • Commercial development 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

Before joining Bradley, Matt was the Dallas office managing shareholder of an Am Law 150 firm for six years, and before that, he served for 15 years 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 a leading Texas-based law firm.

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 served 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 Real Estate Law since 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.