MATT
CUNNINGHAM
ATTORNEY
R3414 WRIGHTSVILLE AVENUE
WILMINGTON NC 28403
PO BOX 4548
WILMINGTON NC 28406
Office: 910.399.3447
Direct: 910.833.8932
Mobile: 919.523.4475
matt@leekaess.com
Commercial Real Estate
Corporate Transactions
Finance and Joint Ventures
Education
Wake Forest University School of Law
JD, cum laude,1997
Order of the Coif
Wake Forest Law Review, Editorial Staff
North Carolina State University
BA, 1991
Admissions
North Carolina
Achievements & Superlatives
Law & Politics Magazine, North Carolina Super Lawyers, Rising Star
Triangle Business Journal, 40 Leaders Under 40 in the Triangle
Wake County Bar, President’s Award for Service to Bar
Memberships
North Carolina Bar Association
Wake County Bar Association
10th Judicial District
Community Involvement
St. Mark's United Methodist Church, Member
NC Partnership for Child Nutrition, Board Member, Secretary
Moore Square AIG/GT Magnet Middle School, Foundation, Board Member
SPCA of Wake County, Board President (Past)
Brooks Museums Magnet Elementary School, Foundation, Board President (Past)
NC Bar Association Real Property Section Annual Meeting, Co-Planner (2008 & 2014)
Wake County Bar Awards Committee, Board Member (Past)
Matt Cunningham was a partner in one of the largest law firms in the Southeast before joining his friends and colleagues at Lee Kaess PLLC, to pursue the client-driven, focused and practical service approach that has become the hallmark of our firm. Matt focuses on providing real time, real world solutions, with an understanding that success in every representation is defined by his client’s needs.
Matt has a complex commercial real estate transaction practice, finance and business practice, assisting and advising privately held companies, retail developers, and joint venture participants on a variety of transactional matters and key events in the lifespan of each project or company, ranging from ongoing contractual negotiations and relationships, to financing matters, to structuring ownership interest and asset acquisitions and dispositions, shareholder and operating agreements, and overall corporate governance.
Matt represents a diverse array of clients, ranging from shopping center developers to clinical research site networks, hoteliers, and regional and national lenders.
Matt Cunningham is a North Carolina native who lives in Raleigh with his wife, two children, and two rescue mutts.
Matt received a Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the Wake Forest University School of Law in 2000. Matt has been recognized by Law and Politics Magazine as a Rising Star in North Carolina as well as being named by the Triangle Business Journal as one of 40 Leaders Under 40.