Neil Duncan
Twining Properties
CFO and Partner
Job Functions: Executive, Acquisitions & Dispositions, Capital Markets, Leasing
Bio
Mr. Duncan has arranged over $1 billion in debt and equity for [ t ] TwiningProperties projects and has been responsible for the sale of over $500 million of assets.
Previously, Mr. Duncan was CFO for MetroNexus, a Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds Enterprise which managed the redevelopment and disposition of a 3 million square foot portfolio in the US and Canada. He performed investment sales as a Vice President at Rockwood Realty and was a Vice President at J.P. Morgan for 10 years, working in the Real Estate Investment Banking Group, where he focused on both domestic and cross-border advisory assignments, debt and equity financings and structured tax transactions for real estate and corporate clients.
While at J.P. Morgan, Mr. Duncan worked on many advisory and financing transactions, including restructuring Mitsubishi Estate's $1.5 billion investment in Rockefeller Center, Ford Motor Company's $1 billion sale of First Nationwide Bank, a $5 billion commercial real estate portfolio, the sale of Newport Tower, a 1 million square foot office building in Jersey City. Mr. Duncan has worked on many financing transactions, such as a $190 million acquisition and lease-up loan from J. P. Morgan to the purchasers of 590 Madison Avenue, a 1 million square foot office building in New York and the purchase of 50 percent of Brazil's leading retail company by a U.S. REIT. He has also has completed structured tax financings including $1 billion for The Walt Disney Co. and $300 milllion for J. P. Morgan raising equity and debt through private equity placements, credit derivatives, mortgage loans and sale-leasebacks.
Mr. Duncan worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers from 1983 to 1989, both in the New York office and the London office. Mr. Duncan qualified as a Chartered Accountant in England in 1986. He received a BA in Economics from Nottingham University in England.
Areas of Interest
- Deal Type
- Acquisition, Development, Ground Lease, Loan Purchase, Opportunity Zone, Partner Buyout, Pre-Development, Recapitalization, Refinance, Rehabilitation