Matthew R. Fleming

Matthew Fleming is a member of Bodman’s Real Estate Practice Group. He represents businesses and individual clients as buyers or sellers in connection with complex commercial and significant residential real estate transactions, including land acquisition, financing, land development and leasing, and general real property management.

Matt has experience in the development and creation of traditional and site condominiums for residential and business projects. He has applied the condominium concept in mixed-use developments, including the preparation of master deeds and disclosure documents and the review of subdivision plats and condominium plans

Before joining Bodman as an associate attorney, he participated in the firm’s summer associate program, gaining broad exposure to a variety of clients and areas of practice. He also served a legal internship with a leading publisher of business media where he assisted in the review and modification of vendor contracts and landlord/tenant agreements.

At Wayne State University Law School, Matt served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Law in Society and as 1L Liaison for the Entrepreneurship and Business Law Society. As an undergraduate at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, he earned a number of academic honors, including the Chancellor’s Medallion, the University’s highest academic honor awarded to a select group of students chosen by faculty based on outstanding quality of character, intellect, integrity, and academic record. He also served as a research assistant in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and co-authored several articles and a book on contemporary topics in Sociology.

Pro Bono

• State Bar of Michigan 2024 A Lawyer Helps Pro Bono Honor Roll

• Matt Fleming and Kelly Lockman  Secure New Southfield Headquarters for Habitat for Humanity of Oakland County

Early this year, Matt and Kelly were asked to facilitate the purchase of Habitat for Humanity of Oakland County’s new Southfield building, including assistance with review of the purchase agreement, title commitment and survey, and drafting and negotiating the closing documents with the title company and seller to consummate the transaction. With their help, Habitat for Humanity was able to purchase the new building and is planning to move its administrative operations as well as some aspects of its Habitat ReStore resale business into the new headquarters by the end of 2024.

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