Stan Edwards is the managing principal and co-founder of Real Estate Interests, LLC, a specialized real estate consultancy designed to manage assets and property and guide companies through major changes and complex deals.

With more than 20 years of expertise in real estate and financial services, Edwards is particularly focused in the areas of business development, operations and strategic planning. His experience includes spearheading the marketing and business acquisition platform for the OEM’s Tier automotive supply base while leading business development efforts at a commercial insurance firm. Later he played an integral role in increasing the assets under management of an institutional real estate advisor from $75 million to $1 billion.

Stan earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan, where he was a four year letterman and three time Big Ten Champion. After graduation, he was drafted by the NFL where he played professional football player for the Houston Oilers and the Detroit Lions.

Experienced real estate consultant, scholar and visionary, Emery Matthews founded and serves as the principal of Detroit-based Real Estate Interests, LLC. Matthews has been a major player in the commercial real estate landscape for more than a decade, regularly managing hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects and investments.

Real Estate Interests, LLC provides specialized consulting services designed to help guide companies through major changes and complex deals, managing assets and property, and advising decision makers. Emery and his team are currently managing projects in the Midwest and across the U.S. in the automotive, manufacturing and education spaces, while increasing their foothold in the rapidly growing Sub-Saharan African nations of South Africa, Ghana and Nigeria.

A Detroit native, Emery earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and simultaneously earned a Juris Doctorate and Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard University. As a lifelong learner with a global vision, Matthews is fluent in German and currently working to improve his Chinese.

Christopher R. Martella is a Member of Dawda, Mann, Mulcahy & Sadler, PLC, practicing in the areas of real estate, cybersecurity, and corporate matters. In addition to his real estate and corporate background, he focuses on structured finance and medical practice “roll-up” sales. Prior to joining Dawda Mann, Christopher worked at a boutique firm that advised midmarket qualified professional asset managers on the acquisition of commercial real estate and alternative investment vehicles.

Christopher has extensive experience working with industrial developers and the United States General Services Administration and its real estate service providers. Prior to his boutique practice, he worked in the State of Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates for the local office of a multinational law firm. While he was in the Middle East, Christopher’s practice focused on real estate acquisition and development, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, and Islamic and traditional finance. In addition to Christopher’s real estate and finance background, he is a leading advisor to many small and medium-sized businesses on legal issues related to pre- and post-electronic data breach mitigation strategies, data security, data privacy, and National Institute of Standards and Technology and ISO/IEC 27000 data security and management compliance.

Christopher has been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© 2021 in the field of Real Estate Law (Copyright 2020 by Woodward/White, Inc., of SC). He is also a 2018-2020 Leading Lawyer in the categories of Data Privacy, Real Estate Law: Commercial, and Real Estate Law: Finance, Super Lawyers 2024, and DBusiness 2024 and 2025 Real Estate.

Prior to becoming an attorney, Christopher was a founder and the chief operating officer of Microweb Inc., a mobile phone software company based in Hong Kong, which was sold to a Chinese technology company in 2002.