INVESTORS

Bio

Matthew Landau

Mr. Landau has an institutional background in commercial real estate debt and equity dating back 30+ years. As an active lender and owner, he has financed, operated and/or owned office, residential, retail and hotel properties and portfolios in excess of $6 billion. Over the past decade, Mr. Landau has invested his own capital in a dozen+ distressed and opportunistic residential and commercial real estate deals nationally. For the prior five years, he was a Principal of Westport Capital Partners, an institutional investment firm that invested approximately $1 billion of discretionary equity capital in hedge funds and private equity vehicles. Mr. Landau was primarily responsible for sourcing, underwriting and closing new business.

Other responsibilities included asset management, investor relations, and credit committee authority. For more than the prior dozen years, Mr. Landau held Managing Director roles in real estate lending departments at three investment banks including Natixis, Bear Stearns and Deutsche Bank. In the 1980s, Mr. Landau worked in commercial real estate banking at HSBC and Citibank. Mr. Landau has been active with the Real Estate Lenders Association, previously serving as President and Chairman and currently serving on its Advisory Board.
Mr. Landau received his Masters of Science with honors in Real Estate Finance and Investment from New York University and a Bachelor of Science in Business from SUNY Albany. He is active in many non-profit and charitable endeavors.

Michael C. Wachs

Mr. Wachs has over 30 years of commercial real estate and finance experience and founded Linden Lane Capital Partners to invest in value-added commercial real estate. Prior to Linden Lane, Mr. Wachs co-founded Spring Mill Capital Management, a company focused on distressed commercial real estate debt investment management. Prior to Spring Mill, Mr. Wachs was President and Chief Operating Officer, a Principal and a Director of AMC Delancey Group, Inc. In that role, Mr. Wachs was responsible for executing AMC Delancey’s real estate investment strategies, including identifying and structuring investments and joint ventures with operating partners, as well as overseeing due diligence, financing and disposition activities.

Mr. Wachs is actively involved in many real estate industry groups, including NAIOP (Commercial Real Estate Development Association) where he is a member of the National Board of Directors. Mr. Wachs also serves as a Trustee of certain mutual funds affiliated with ProFunds Group, a premier provider of alternative mutual funds and ETFs with greater than $40 billion in assets in more than 200 funds.

Mr. Wachs earned a Masters in Business Administration from Drexel University and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from George Washington University.
Mr. Landau received his Masters of Science with honors in Real Estate Finance and Investment from New York University and a Bachelor of Science in Business from SUNY Albany. He is active in many non-profit and charitable endeavors.