After a short stint in the international development space and then law school, Edward began his professional career in 2008 as a Mergers and Acquisitions, and Project Finance attorney at London-based law firm, Linklaters LLP. He acted in over $12 billion in equity and debt transactions, and worked in the firm’s New York, London, Hong Kong and Sao Paulo offices. Upon leaving his legal practice in 2013, he founded with two partners a small private equity firm based in Houston, Texas. Through the firm’s investments, he served as primary corporate legal counsel for an upstream oil and gas company, and head of operations for a 20-unit full service restaurant chain. Upon exiting those investments in 2019, Edward pursued real estate development in Nashville, Tennessee. Since entering the market, he has developed a number of residential condominium buildings, last-mile logistic industrial hubs, multi-family apartment buildings and a single-family residential community. In addition to Edward’s current real estate development activities in the Southeast, he currently operates in his home state of New Mexico his family’s 67 year old cattle ranching operation based in Capitan, New Mexico and a steakhouse in the neighboring town of Ruidoso. There are over 70 employees working between the cattle and restaurant operations.