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Co-Head of the Private Equity Funds Group. Represents private equity fund sponsors in connection with fund formation, the acquisition of portfolio investments and the implementation of exit strategies.

Joe represents private equity fund sponsors in connection with fund formation, the acquisition of portfolio investments and the implementation of exit strategies. In this capacity, he advises clients on securities, governance, compliance, operational and structural issues. Joe has extensive regulatory knowledge, and wide-ranging experience with all alternative asset classes, including LBO funds, venture capital and later-stage growth equity funds, energy and infrastructure funds, credit funds, real estate funds and joint ventures, fund restructurings and other complex secondary transactions, including GP-led recapitalizations and the disposition of large institutional portfolios. He has also represented many fund managers in connection with stakes deals, spinoffs and consolidations.

In addition to domestic representations, Joe has advised private equity clients in connection with the acquisition and structuring of portfolio investments throughout Europe, Latin America and Asia. His representation of asset managers in the real estate sector includes advice concerning REIT offerings and privatizations, partnership roll-ups and cross-border investments.

Joseph Sarcinella is a partner in the Real Estate Practice Group in Haynes Boone’s New York office.

His practice focuses on cross-border finance, structured finance and consortium lending, with everything from ground-up construction to stabilized properties.

Joe has advised on buyer and seller side debt sales including co-lender and intercreditor agreement negotiations and has served as debt counsel on both the borrower and lender side of transactions. He is also experienced in loan workouts, restructurings and foreclosures.

Known for his passion and tenacity, David R. Weinreb is an entrepreneur and respected leader. Since 2020, he has served as the Chairman of Weinreb Ventures, a multi-faceted investment and advisory firm focused on creating and enhancing real estate that will stand the test of time. Mr. Weinreb is also the Chairman of Dar Global, a London-listed luxury real estate developer that has launched over $2 billion worth of projects in the Middle East and Europe. These include developments in collaboration with the Trump Organization in Oman and Saudi Arabia.

Weinreb previously served as the co-founder, CEO, and a member of the Board of Directors of The Howard Hughes Corporation from 2010 to 2019. As CEO, he directed the company’s efforts from its inception, building a portfolio of some of the most sought-after real estate in the United States and growing the company’s market capitalization from approximately $500 million to $6 billion by the time of his departure. Under his leadership, the company developed over 15 million square feet of property nationwide.

During his tenure at The Howard Hughes Corporation, Mr. Weinreb’s vision, leadership, and business acumen earned him significant recognition. He received the 2013 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year® Award in Real Estate for the region. Additionally, he was listed multiple times on the Commercial Observer Power 100 as one of the most powerful individuals in New York City real estate. The company generated over $5 billion in residential sales, including more than $4 billion at Ward Village in Honolulu, which was named the “Best Planned Community in the US” by Architectural Digest.

Prior to leading The Howard Hughes Corporation, Mr. Weinreb spent 17 years building and managing his investment firm, TPMC Realty Corporation. His commitment to philanthropy extends to both local and national causes, including his role on the national board of the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation.

Mr. Neveloff represents clients in all aspects of transactional real estate as well as complex restructurings.  Mr. Neveloff has represented developers of numerous mixed-use projects, including Time Warner Center, as well as numerous regional and local shopping centers, and other commercial projects throughout the country.

Recently, Mr. Neveloff represented Starwood Hotels in selling the retail portion of the St. Regis Hotel, Manhattan; the owner of Starrett City, the largest federally subsidized housing complex in the United States, in a capital transaction; Fortress Investments in connection with The Sheffield, a 497-unit condominium; New York Life Insurance Company in the sale of Manhattan House, a residential complex comprising an entire block of Manhattan; and the seller of The New Frontier Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.  Mr. Neveloff has represented Donald Trump for more than 25 years in innumerable matters.

Mr. Neveloff received his J.D. from NYU and was elected to the American Law Institute, American College of Real Estate Lawyers and American College of Mortgage Attorneys.

Danny Malkin is a Managing Director in Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies ("BREDS") on the Private Investments team, based in New York. Mr. Malkin is responsible for overseeing the U.S. Private Investments team in the sourcing, underwriting, and structuring of debt investments across all asset types and geographies.  Mr. Malkin previously worked for Blackstone in both London and Sydney.

Mr. Malkin received a BBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

Mr. Hertz is responsible for Corebridge's Global Real Estate's U.S. equity investment activities, overseeing various real estate teams that source, underwrite and close new acquisition and development opportunities for all product types, including multi-family, retail, office, industrial, hotel, and senior/student housing. Prior to joining Corebridge Global Real Estate in 2009, Mr. Hertz was a Managing Director at Amstar Global Advisors, a private equity fund, where he was responsible for all real estate investments and dispositions, with assets in Russia, Turkey and India. Prior to Amstar, Mr. Hertz was a Managing Director at Corebridge Global Real Estate where he was responsible for U.S. retail property investments. Prior to Corebridge, Mr. Hertz was a Senior Vice President at Prime Retail, a Baltimore based REIT, where he was mainly involved in acquisitions and development, property dispositions, asset management and structuring lender and equity partner work-out strategies. Mr. Hertz received a Bachelor of Science degree in Real Estate from The Pennsylvania State University and a master's degree in real estate investment from Johns Hopkins University.

Chester P. Lee is chair emeritus of Duane Morris' Real Estate Practice Group. Mr. Lee practices in the area of real estate law, providing strategic and legal advice for all types of commercial real estate transactions. Mr. Lee has represented both lenders and borrowers in secured financings and loan restructurings, including construction loans, Real-Estate-Owned properties (REOs), leasehold financings, debtor-in-possession loans, exit financings, project financings and mezzanine debt.

Mr. Lee also has counseled clients acquiring, disposing and/or developing real property, including ground-lease and sale-leaseback transactions (including sale-leasebacks involving call centers and medical facilities). Many of these matters involved purchases of multiple sites located in numerous jurisdictions. He has represented many foreign investors (including those from China, Russia and France) in their initial acquisitions and developments of projects in the United States (such as retail and manufacturing sites). He also has worked with landlords, tenants and subtenants in the leasing and subleasing of real estate assets, including built-to-suit facilities, retail locations and warehouse and distribution centers.

Mr. Lee has represented international and domestic investors in natural resource acquisitions, including uranium and coal mining projects. Mr. Lee has counseled clients in the financing of energy assets such as wind farms and propane gas distribution facilities.

Mr. Lee is a 1982 graduate of Harvard Law School and a summa cum laude graduate of Columbia University.

Cary Carpenter is a Managing Director of commercial real estate, capital markets, trading and syndication at Starwood Property Trust. In this role, Mr. Carpenter is responsible for pricing, structuring and capital commitments for the acquisition and sale of CRE debt for Starwood Property Trust. He also manages the financing and sale of whole loans, as well as warehouse lines for the company.

Prior to joining Starwood Property Trust in 2010, Mr. Carpenter was a Partner at Coastal Capital Partners, where he managed the acquisition of performing, sub-performing and non-performing CRE debt. As an Executive Vice President with Countrywide Commercial Real Estate Finance, Cary was responsible for the pricing, structuring and sale of all fixed and floating rate high-yield commercial real estate debt. Before that, Mr. Carpenter served his initial stint at Coastal Capital Partners, where his responsibilities included client development and capital raising for third parties. Before that, he was a Managing Director for Precept Corp., an online marketplace for CRE financing, with responsibilities including business and product development, and capital raising. Prior to that, he was a Vice President of Structured Finance at Nomura Asset Capital, a Senior Consultant in Deloitte and Touche’s real estate capital markets group, an Assistant Treasurer in Toyo Trust and Bank’s real estate finance group, and a Project Designer for both The SWA Group and Sasaki Associates.

Cary received an M.S. in real estate development and finance from Columbia University, and a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from Kansas State University.

James has over 17 years of real estate investment and asset management experience in various property sectors, across the entire capital stack in the US, Europe, and Asia.  He recently joined Macquarie and focuses on the sourcing, execution, and management of MAM Real Estate’s investments in the Americas.  Prior to joining Macquarie, James worked for 11 years (2011-2022) at Starwood Capital Group where he led investments in the Tri-State area after successfully starting Starwood’s investments in Australia and helping to grow their European business.    

His experience includes over US$7 billion of acquisitions of residential, industrial, office, student housing, and retail.  Additionally, he has significant experience in buying performing/nonperforming debt and originating debt / preferred equity.  James started his career in the large loan originations team at Lehman Brothers. 

Mr. Fogarty graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Arts (Cum Laude B.A.), History and a Minor in Urban Real Estate from the Wharton School. 

Leo Jacobs is a commercial litigation and bankruptcy attorney and the founder of Jacobs, P.C., a boutique law firm known for finding creative, direct, and expedient solutions to complex and high-profile issues.

Nick Hoffman is a partner in the Real Estate Practice Group in the New York office of Haynes Boone. Nick regularly represents investment banks, commercial banks, and foreign and domestic private equity clients in sophisticated real estate transactions, including structured loans, mezzanine loans, construction financing, preferred equity investments and joint ventures. Nick devotes a significant portion of his practice to capital markets and syndication work in the debt space including note sales, intercreditor arrangements and participations. Nick also has experience with debt restructurings work-outs, and single asset and portfolio acquisitions and dispositions.

Nick has a developing practice in property assessed clean energy (PACE) financing, helping clients access cost-effective, revenue-neutral financing for energy-efficient improvements and renewable energy systems, which are repaid through assessments on the property. 

Before joining the firm, Nick was a senior executive with the Ruben Companies, a Manhattan based developer, and was involved in all aspects of the management and development of its office and residential portfolio in New York, Washington, D.C. and Boston.

Nick is a frequent speaker at the annual NY iGlobal Mezzanine Finance Summits.

Alan Todd is head of U.S. Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities (CMBS) Research and a member of the CREFC Board of Governors. In this role he is responsible for providing in-depth analysis and macro-level overviews of the CMBS, CMBX and commercial real estate markets. 

Alan brings over 20 years of CMBS experience to this role and is highly regarded for his recommendations and timely market calls. Alan correctly called the recovery of the CMBS market since the 2009 bottom and the decline of the CMBS market in 2008. Alan has been ranked in the top 3 for CMBS strategy in the Institutional Investor All-America Fixed Income Research team survey in each of the last fourteen years. 

Alan joined Bank of America Merrill Lynch in August of 2011 from J.P. Morgan, where he was head of CMBS research since 2005. Previously he spent five years at Bear Stearns, also in CMBS Research. Alan received his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University, his Master’s degree in Finance from Vanderbilt University and is a CFA Charter holder.

Yorick Starr is Senior Director of Structured Investments with Invesco Real Estate ("IRE"). Based in New York, Yorick is primarily responsible for loan originations covering the East Coast region, with an emphasis on the primary and gateway markets. Loan products are focused on non-recourse, floating-rate, transitional senior and subordinate loans (including mezzanine loans and B-notes) secured by institutional quality real estate. Prior to Invesco, Yorick worked at Wells Fargo for 15 years in Real Estate Merchant Banking division, with experience ranging from opportunistically acquiring commercial real estate loans (single notes & pools) in the secondary market and providing leverage on commercial real estate loans acquisitions (performing loans through NPL pools) as well as leveraging direct originations by debt funds (A/B, senior/sub, note-on-note, & repo structures).

Yorick is a graduate of the University of San Diego (BBA, Finance, Accounting, IT, Computer Science).

Mansoor Ghori is a Founder, CEO, and Board Member of Petros PACE Finance. He leads Credit, Underwriting, and Business Development, and is the Chairman of the Investment Committee. He is integral to underwriting and structuring transactions, leveraging his 30+ years of experience in structured finance.
Prior to Petros, he was the President and CEO of Accent Capital and was responsible for the investment and administrative activities of the firm. He was also a Managing Director at Transamerica Technology Finance Corporation, which was subsequently acquired by GE Capital, and a Principal at Sternhill Partners, a $100 million venture capital firm based in Houston.
Prior to joining Sternhill, he was the Founder and SVP/Regional Manager of Imperial Bank’s Southwest Region of the Emerging Growth Industries Group (acquired by Comerica Bank). He was also a VP in the National Accounts Division of Silicon Valley Bank, focusing on investments in high- technology and biotech companies in Texas.
Mansoor also currently serves on the following boards: Petros, STG Design, PACENation, C-PACE Alliance, as well as the Andy Roddick Foundation.
In addition, he is also an Executive Committee Member of Petros, PACENation and C-PACE Alliance, and a finance committee member of PACENation and the Andy Roddick Foundation.
Mansoor is a graduate of Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California and holds an MBA from Northeastern University in Boston.

Nicole Wilson is a Director and the Global Sustainability Lead for KKR Real Estate. As part of the Real Estate team, she partners with internal and external stakeholders to drive sustainability initiatives across the firm’s Real Estate equity and credit portfolios.

Prior to joining KKR, she worked with the World Bank Group’s International Finance Corporation, where she acted as a subject matter expert on sustainability risks and opportunities related to transactions, advisory projects and existing portfolio. Additionally, Ms. Wilson worked with Canadian pension fund, PSP Investments, where she was responsible for integrating sustainability considerations into its private equity, credit, and real estate investments. Ms. Wilson has a BSc from McGill University and a MASC from Toronto Metropolitan University.

Jill brings 14 years of industry experience to the Firm and is Chair of the Firm’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Committee. As Senior Managing Director and Chief Impact Officer, she oversees the measurement, management, reporting and enhancement of the Firm’s ESG initiatives. Key areas of focus include climate risk and resiliency, carbon emissions reduction and human health and wellness. She is also a Co-chair of the Firm’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee.

Jill began in the environmental arena as a resident student associate where she was tasked with designing a closed gas system for a particle detector in order to eliminate the emissions of over four tons of Freon into the atmosphere every year. Her first job post-college was as an associate scientist studying inertial confinement fusion. Fusion, while far from commercially viable, could potentially become a clean energy source. There she worked in the department of material science’s cryogenics division and used holographic interferometry to determine how heavy hydrogen targets reacted to extremely low temperatures. This research led to improved alternative energy experimental results.

While at Harrison Street, she worked on the Galvin Electricity Initiative, which was a campaign to transform the United States power system into one that was reliable, efficient and clean. She was involved in ensuring this effort, which later became the Performance Excellence in Electricity Renewal (PEER) program was able to scale via acquisition from the U.S. Green Building Council.

Before joining the industry, Jill held positions at Motorola, Argonne National Laboratory and KMS Fusion, Inc. Jill holds several patents and publications, and was awarded Best Presentation at the annual MOOT CORP® Global Business Plan competition. She is a certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt.

Jill has a BS in Physics from the University of Illinois, an MSEE from The Ohio State University, and an MBA from Northwestern University.

Ms. Cappola serves as ESG Manager on the Portfolio & Asset Management team, with primary responsibility for Madison’s ESG initiatives. Prior to joining Madison, Ms. Cappola held positions including Sustainability/ESG Manager at Empire State Realty Trust,  Sustainability Manager at Jones Lang LaSalle, and Associate Sustainability Project Manager at Jones Lang LaSalle.  Ms. Cappola graduated from Freeman College of management at Bucknell University, where she received her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.