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Contact: Michael Pachuta / Jessica Spaulding
Amies Communications
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michael@amies.com / jessica@amies.com

 

BUCHANAN STREET PARTNERS ANNOUNCES 5 KEY HIRES

 

Buchanan Street Partners is pleased to announce that Jim Davies and Eric Snyder have joined their Newport Beach office as Senior Vice President and Vice President, respectively. The Davies and Snyder advisory team are recognized leaders in self-storage and mobile home community financing and will focus on various types of commercial real estate financing including permanent debt, equity, bridge and construction financing. They will also help invest the Company's own proprietary capital through THE BUCHANAN FUNDS in select value-added and development opportunities. Jim Davies has closed over $1 billion in commercial and multi-family real estate transactions during his 18-year mortgage-banking career. He is a graduate of UCLA with a degree in Economics. Mr. Snyder has been involved in the closing of over $1 billion in transactions during the past 5 years. Prior to joining Buchanan Street Partners, he was a Director with GE Capital responsible for the origination and analysis of loan requests nationwide. Previous to that, Mr. Snyder was an Investment Officer at FINOVA Realty Capital (formerly Belgravia Capital) and also worked for ITT Commercial Finance and Bank of America. Mr. Snyder earned a Bachelor's degree in Urban & Regional Planning from California Polytechnic University.

 

Buchanan Street Partners also welcomes Jim Ebert as a Senior Vice President responsible for its institutional investor programs. He has an extensive background as equity investor, pension fund advisor and lender, and serves on the investment committee of THE BUCHANAN FUNDS, a series of private real estate investment funds for high net worth and institutional investors. Mr. Ebert was previously a Senior Vice President with Acacia Capital Corporation and was the founder and Chief Investment Officer of Acacia Bank, its mezzanine lending subsidiary, where he served as an investment advisor to university endowments such as Yale, Harvard and Princeton. His background also includes directing over $1 billion in equity investments for GE Real Estate Equities in the western United States. Mr. Ebert holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Michigan School of Business.

 

Bentley T. Kerr has also joined Buchanan Street Partners in the position of Vice President, Investor Services at its Newport Beach headquarters. Mr. Kerr is involved in all aspects of marketing and investor relations for THE BUCHANAN FUNDS, private real estate offerings geared toward high net-worth and corporate clients. His institutional background includes corporate banking with Wells Fargo Bank, pension fund advisory and asset management with Lowe Enterprises, and commercial development with Koll Company and Polygon Development. Mr. Kerr holds MBA and Master of Real Estate Development (MRED) degrees from the University of Southern California and a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

 

Buchanan Street Partners welcomes Michael Guterman to the position of Vice President in their Los Angeles office. He will deepen the firm's marketing efforts in the Los Angeles area, generating real estate advisory assignments and equity placements for all property types. Prior to Mikes joining Buchanan Street Partners, he was a top producing originator at FINOVA Realty Capital with annual production volumes exceeding $100MM, and before that a Vice President of Business Development with Kennedy Wilson International.

 

Buchanan Street Partners is a West Coast based real estate investment bank headquartered in Newport Beach, California with offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles. The firm makes principal investments on behalf of its private and institutional clients while also providing advisory services for real estate owners and developers.