Joseph Jacobson

Joseph Jacobson serves as a Partner and Co-Founder at Madison Capital. In this capacity, he manages Madison Capital's day-to-day business activities and oversees all transactions and operations, including asset management, capital markets, legal affairs, leasing, reporting, accounting, investor relations, due diligence and risk control. Mr. Jacobson also structures and oversees all of Madison Capital’s joint venture, equity and debt transactions. He is a member of Madison Capital’s Investment Committee.

Prior to joining Madison Capital, Mr. Jacobson served as an attorney in the Corporate Finance and Investment Fund practice groups at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP’s New York office. In this role, he gained expertise in the areas of real estate finance, private equity, investment funds, venture capital and REITs. He was involved in a wide array of transactions totaling in excess of $5 billion. Such transactions included initial public offerings, financing, acquisitions, onshore and offshore investment funds, private equity and venture capital investments, and commercial real estate (with a concentration in real estate investment funds, real estate investment trusts and real estate acquisitions). Mr. Jacobson’s extensive real estate experience includes the negotiation, structuring and documentation of acquisitions, dispositions and co-investment transactions, structuring of real estate joint ventures and partnerships, and REIT-related transactions (including formation and acquisition transactions).Mr. Jacobson serves as an Alumni Interviewer for the University of Pennsylvania and is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) and the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY).

Mr. Jacobson earned his Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude with distinction in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 and his Juris Doctor from Cornell Law School in 1996.