Bio
Alan joined Ackman-Ziff in 2000 and serves as a Managing Director. Alan has originated, structured and closed over $8 billion in debt and equity transactions on a variety of asset types including retail, office, hotel, multifamily and land.
In 2016, Alan won the Real Estate Board of New York’s Most Ingenious Deal of the Year award in the finance category for the $66.5 million, 100% of cost, construction loan for the development of a 160,000 square foot medical office and parking facility in East New York, Brooklyn. In 2005, his financing of the conversion of the Watergate Hotel was awarded the “Best Real Estate Deal Award for Financing” by the Washington Business Journal.
Prior to joining Ackman-Ziff, Alan was a Vice President in the capital markets group of Sonnenblick-Goldman Company, where he was responsible for many of the firm’s debt, equity and origination relationships and transactions, and was actively engaged in the origination, underwriting, structuring and sale of over $1 billion of investment sales of properties and notes. Alan also served as a member of a loan workout group at FGH Realty Credit Corporation, a subsidiary of Aegon Insurance, where he conducted the analysis, restructuring and foreclosure of over $300 million of defaulted loans. He started his career as an Associate at Wilson, Pleus & Company, a real estate and venture capital firm, where he gained experience in the acquisition, renovation and subsequent conversion of multifamily rental properties into condominium ownership.
Alan earned a B.A. in accounting from Washington and Jefferson College and an M.S. in real estate development and investment from New York University.
Areas of Interest
- Deal Type
- Acquisition, Development, Ground Lease, Loan Purchase, Opportunity Zone, Partner Buyout, Pre-Development, Recapitalization, Refinance, Rehabilitation