Matthew J. Lustig is the Chief Executive Officer and a Managing Principal of LREP and a Managing Director and  Board Member of LAI. He is separately Vice Chairman of US Investment Banking and Head at Real Estate at Lazard Fréres & Co. LLC (“Lazard”) responsible for their real estate industry investment banking activities.

Mr. Lustig has managed LREP, set strategy, and overseen many of the transactions within LREP’s investment funds. Mr. Lustig is Chairman of the Board and a member of the Executive Committee of Atria Senior Living Group, Inc. and a Director of Commonwealth Atlantic Properties Inc. He has previously served, on behalf of LREP funds, as a Director of Brandywine Realty Trust (NYSE: BDN), iStar Financial Inc. (NYSE: SFI) and Kapson Senior Quarters Corp., and as a member of the Partnership Committee of The Rubenstein Company L.P.

Mr. Lustig oversees Lazard’s real estate investment banking business and has extensive experience in advising clients with respect to strategic matters, restructuring, finance and capital raising, and first tier asset and portfolio sales. In recent years, he has advised on over $200 billion of strategic transactions involving leading real estate companies in the public and private markets. Mr. Lustig is also a member of Lazard's fairness opinion committee.

Prior to joining Lazard in 1989, Mr. Lustig was a First Vice President at Drexel Burnham Lambert. He was previously a lending officer with Chase Manhattan Bank specializing in credit, construction, and real estate finance.

Mr. Lustig is a member of various industry organizations including Real Estate Roundtable, Urban Land Institute, Pension Real Estate Association, the Real Estate Advisory Boards at Columbia University School of Business and The Wharton School Zell/Robert Lurie Real Estate Center.  He also serves on the Board of Boston Properties, Inc. (BXP:NYSE), and the Board of Visitors of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, from which he received a BSFS in International Economics in 1982.