Seth B Lipsay

Mr. Lipsay's professional career has included senior leadership roles in a variety of public and private organizations in the real estate, mortgage, and CMBS arenas, including Kenneth Leventhal & Company, Kidder Peabody, Paine Webber, and UBS and jointly sponsored investments with prominent institutional investors, including Reckson Associates, G. Soros Realty, Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, and Five Mile Capital.

Mr. Lipsay has recognized expertise in originating, underwriting, structuring, negotiating and harvesting complex debt, mezzanine and equity investments in the commercial real estate and specialty finance arenas. His experience includes originations in excess of $2 billion of commercial and multifamily mortgage and mezzanine loans and more than $500 million of corporate leveraged lease financings for leading private and institutional owners and acquirers of real estate portfolios. As a trader on a leading CMBS desk, Mr. Lipsay was intimately involved in the securitization and trading of billions of dollars worth of public and private CMBS, including the bond structuring, credit rating and institutional sales processes. Mr. Lipsay also has considerable principal and advisory experience in portfolio sales, contentious workouts and complex restructurings of commercial real estate and mortgage assets.

Mr. Lipsay received his MBA in finance and real estate from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, his JD from the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University and his BA in public policy from New College.