Chris is a Senior Director at Cushman & Wakefield with over 13 years of experience in Investment Banking and Commercial Real Estate. As part of Cushman & Wakefield’s preeminent Equity, Debt & Structured Finance group, the former Sonnenblick Goldman Advisory Firm, Chris collaborates to provide a full-spectrum financial services platform to both domestic and international clients offering unsurpassed customized advisory and integrated capital solutions for all asset classes. Prior to joining Cushman & Wakefield, Chris oversaw financing and investment sales as part of Ackman Ziff’s Miami office. At Cushman & Wakefield, Chris originated and executed debt and equity financing transactions.

Mr. Lentz previously worked in the Restructuring and Mergers and Acquisitions groups at Evercore Partners in New York. Prior to Evercore, Mr. Lentz worked at Lazard Freres & Co., after starting his career in the Global Real Estate Group at Lehman Brothers. While at Evercore, Mr. Lentz worked on several high profile restructurings and recapitalizations, including the Delta Petroleum Corporation bankruptcy, the Seitel recapitalization, and the restructuring of Readers Digest.

At Lazard Freres, Mr. Lentz provided capital structure advisory to Oil and Gas Exploration and Production companies, as well as the syndication of equity and debt offerings for alternative energy companies. Selected clients include Harvest Natural Resources, Capstone Turbine, Comverge, Verenium, Ballard Power, FuelCell Energy, and Beacon Power.

At Lehman Brothers, Mr. Lentz underwrote and was part of the team that securitized well over $10 billion of commercial real estate loans. Mr. Lentz remained with Lehman/Barclays through the bankruptcy, and was part of the team marketing the real estate equity & debt portfolio throughout 2008.