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Nicholas Bienstock

Mr. Bienstock is a Managing Partner of Savanna. At Savanna, Mr. Bienstock has developed relationships with institutional lenders and third-party capital partners, as well as identified acquisitions and structured transactions. Mr. Bienstock has worked on the acquisition, financing, restructuring and sale of over $4 billion of real estate throughout the United States. Mr. Bienstock sits on the Investment Committee and supervises the ongoing marketing and leasing of Savanna’s investments. Prior to joining Savanna in 1999, Mr. Bienstock worked at Capital Trust, Inc. in New York where he worked on a wide variety of real estate principal investment and advisory transactions, including the purchase of equity interests in various properties, the negotiation and structuring of mezzanine loans, single asset and portfolio sales, asset management, debt and equity private placements and REIT IPO advisory work. Prior to Capital Trust, Mr. Bienstock worked for Chemical Bank’s Real Estate Investment Banking Group. Mr. Bienstock received an MBA from the Columbia Business School, an MS in Real Estate Development from the Columbia School of Architecture and a BA from Harvard College where he graduated cum laude. Mr. Bienstock is an Assistant Adjunct Professor at Columbia University where he teaches a seminar in Real Estate Finance to graduate students in the Columbia Architecture School’s Real Estate Master’s Degree Program.

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