Matea Bozja regularly represents clients in diverse and sophisticated real estate matters, with a specific focus on REIT-related transactions.
Bozja’s practice includes property acquisitions and sales, joint venture formations, and financing and leasing transactions. Her clients include institutional investors, buyers, sellers, landlords, tenants, operators and borrowers that own, lease, manage and finance office properties, industrial properties, senior housing, shopping centers, and residential and mixed-use properties. In recognition of her work, Bozja was named in Lawdragon’s list of 500 Leading Real Estate Lawyers.
Lawdragon Honors
| Honor | Year | Practice |
|---|---|---|
| The 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Real Estate Lawyers | 2026 | Real Estate, REITs, Joint Venture |
| The 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Real Estate Lawyers | 2025 | Real Estate, REITs |
| The 2024 Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Real Estate Lawyers | 2024 | Real Estate, REITs |
Bozja’s representations include:
- Brookdale Senior Living Inc. with respect to its:
- acquisition of Emeritus Corporation, totaled at $2.8 billion, with the assumption of $1.4 billion of Emeritus mortgage debt, resulting in Brookdale having one of the largest owned senior housing real estate portfolios in the country
- entry into two joint venture transactions and related transactions with HCP, Inc., including the creation of a $1.2 billion joint venture under a RIDEA structure, the restructuring of a 153 community triple-net lease portfolio, and the amendment of leases covering 202 HCP-owned senior housing communities operated by Emeritus
- entry into a multipart transaction with HCP, Inc., which includes the consolidation of the existing triple-net leases with HCP into one master lease
- $170 million acquisition of a 15 percent stake in a joint venture with affiliates of The Blackstone Group L.P.
- Holiday Acquisition Holdings Corp. in its $550 million sale of a portfolio of 21 independent living facilities to Sabra Health Care REIT, Inc.