Syndication and Fund FormationMay 26, 2026
A real estate fund sponsor preparing for its first institutional raise sits across the table from a pension fund allocator. The sponsor has a…
Read moreSyndication and Fund FormationMay 22, 2026
A real estate fund is three years into its investment period. The founding team has three principals. One of them announces she is leaving…
Read moreSyndication and Fund FormationMay 21, 2026
A limited partnership agreement runs to 120 pages. The distribution waterfall is three of them. Those three pages determine who gets paid first, who…
Read moreSyndication and Fund FormationMay 20, 2026
A real estate fund exits its first three investments at strong returns. Carry is distributed to the GP entity, which in turn distributes it…
Read moreSyndication and Fund FormationMay 19, 2026
A real estate fund closes its first institutional raise. Two founding principals split the promoted interest equally. Three years into the investment period, one…
Read moreSyndication and Fund FormationMay 18, 2026
A real estate fund closes. The GP entity has three principals: one who spent the prior two years building the investor relationships that filled…
Read moreSyndication and Fund FormationMay 17, 2026
Two partners sit across a conference table, each convinced they deserve a larger share of the promoted interest. One believes the opportunity never exists…
Read moreSyndication and Fund FormationMay 16, 2026
A real estate sponsor closing a larger deal may find that the investor relationships required to fill the equity stack exceed what the GP’s…
Read moreSyndication and Fund FormationMay 15, 2026
One of the first decisions a real estate fund sponsor makes is also one of the most consequential: what legal entity will the fund…
Read moreSyndication and Fund FormationMay 15, 2026
There is a telling asymmetry in how most real estate fund conversations unfold. LPs spend considerable time evaluating the sponsor’s acquisition capabilities, asset management…
Read moreSyndication and Fund FormationMay 13, 2026
Consider a real estate fund manager who has successfully built a track record and is ready to raise an institutional fund. A pension fund…
Read moreSyndication and Fund FormationMay 12, 2026
A real estate fund manager who raises capital directly from investors is doing something that looks, in important respects, like what a registered broker-dealer…
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