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Managing Partner, General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer
Associate General Counsel
VP, Investor Relations
Matt Golden joined Carmel Partners in 2019 in the newly created role of General Counsel. He brings more than 25 years of experience in real estate law. Mr. Golden is a Managing Partner and oversees Compliance, Legal, Risk, and Human Resources. He is a member of the Investment, Executive and Portfolio Management Committees and Chair of the Management Committee.
Prior to Carmel, Mr. Golden served as General Counsel for Beacon Capital Partners for 10 years where he was also a member of the Management, Investment, and Compliance Committees. Before joining Beacon, he was a Partner at Debevoise & Plimpton in its real estate practice.
Mr. Golden received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania in economics with a minor in psychology, and a Juris Doctor from Columbia University School of Law.
Julia Murdock joined Carmel Partners in 2021 as Associate General Counsel. She oversees the legal aspects of development projects, acquisitions, and dispositions across all Carmel markets.
Prior to Carmel, Ms. Murdock was an Associate at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, working on a broad range of commercial real estate transactions. Before Gibson Dunn, she honed her contract, financing, and deal experience in the Real Estate departments of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in North Carolina, and then Paul Hastings in San Francisco.
Ms. Murdock earned both her Bachelor of Arts in political science and global studies and Juris Doctor degrees at The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Gabi Papesh joined Carmel Partners in 2017 and as VP, Investor Relations she brings more than 10 years of experience in the private fund space. Until July of 2023 she was the VP, Compliance working diligently with all departments to ensure Carmel’s compliance program operated at the highest level.
Prior to joining Carmel, Ms. Papesh was a Senior Compliance Consultant at Greyline Partners, a boutique provider of regulatory compliance consulting services representing private fund managers, traditional investment advisers, mutual funds, CTAs and CPOs, and broker-dealers. Before Greyline, she served as the Chief Compliance Officer of a small San Francisco-based hedge fund that also managed SMAs for high-net worth individuals. Prior to the CCO position, Ms. Papesh was a Director at Telsey Advisory Group working as a sell-side equities and options trader.
Ms. Papesh received her Bachelor of Science with an emphasis on corporate finance from San Francisco State University, graduating cum laude, and a Master of Business Administration degree from University of California, Berkeley. While obtaining her MBA she obtained an IGCRE Certificate (Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate in Real Estate) and participated as a lead presenter in the 2022 University of Texas, Austin Case Competition where her team placed second.