Harvey M. Lederman Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, United States

• Responsible for end-to-end credit, underwriting and execution.• Kriss Capital provides financing through the full capital stack for all major product types located in growing urban and secondary markets throughout the Northeast, with a focus on shovel-ready ground-up construction, heavy value-add repositioning, land and condo inventory. Minimum loan size of $50MM.

New York, New York

• Senior credit officer for NYC loan production office of South Florida-based community bank with multi-billion-dollar CRE debt platform. • Lead underwriting, structuring and presentation of bridge, mini-perm, and construction real estate deals for approval by executive investment committee.

Greater New York City Area

• Senior team leader, responsible for overseeing structuring, underwriting and closing first mortgage bridge loans of $10MM - $75MM for the firm's balance sheet.• Since inception, ACRES has closed over $1.25B of transactions. Its financing products have allowed its clients to acquire, refinance and/or enhance both distressed and non-distressed properties, portfolios and notes.

Greater New York City Area

• Advised clients at the portfolio and asset-level, providing strategic, underwriting, valuation and asset management services to private equity firms, debt funds, opportunistic investors, institutional lenders and major financial institutions.

Greater New York City Area

• Led transaction management for this multi-billion-dollar real estate private equity and investment management platform. Responsible for loan structuring, negotiating loan documents and execution of real estate floating rate whole loans, mezzanine loans, B-notes and preferred equity investments.• Previously, as senior member of loan asset management group, successfully resolved and managed portfolio of 100+ distressed and value-add real estate debt investments and specially-serviced CMBS loans. Completed significant loan workouts, restructures and resolutions, via full or discounted payoff, modification, short sale or foreclosure. Extensive experience managing complex litigation and bankruptcy matters. Directed borrower negotiations, receiverships, litigation management and development and implementation of resolution strategies.• Broad underwriting and valuation experience with performing, sub-performing and non-performing commercial and residential loans in connection with various investment opportunities, including the acquisition of CMBS B-pieces and whole-loan portfolios.

Greater New York City Area

• Provided advisory and consulting services--including loan structuring, underwriting, valuation, due diligence and asset management of whole loans, participations and CMBS--to lenders, opportunistic investors, loan sale advisors, government agencies and service providers. • Leveraged over 20 years’ experience in the commercial real estate and financial services industries. Utilized intimate knowledge of real estate, debt, equity and securities structures. Expertise in whole loans, B-notes, participations and CMBS.

Greater New York City Area

• Sourced, structured and underwrote a diverse variety of high-yield, structured finance investments, including: multifamily and commercial real estate-related bridge and mezzanine loans, B-notes, junior participating interests in first mortgages, and preferred and direct equity.• Transaction experience in excess of $1.2 billion.• Supervised overall deal execution, from term sheet to closing. • Managed deal teams of underwriters/analysts on a transaction-by-transaction basis.• Directed all aspects of due diligence, including: cash flow modeling and valuation analysis using proprietary Excel models and Argus, preparation of investment presentations for loan committee, review of loan documents to identify issues with loan structure.

Greater New York City Area

• Senior underwriter and founding member of GE CRE’s Capital Markets Group. • Structured and underwrote large ($35+ million) commercial real estate debt and equity investments for single-asset and portfolio transactions, totaling more than $1.1 billion, for securitization and GE's balance sheet.• Directed underwriting teams for large portfolio transactions, supervised valuation assumptions and analysis, coordinated all due diligence.• Prepared and presented credit requests for review and approval by credit committee.• Underwrote and analyzed over $4 billion of loans for B-piece investment program. • Reviewed, screened and sized transactions representing over $3 billion in principal balance.• Successfully managed relationships with borrowers, external brokers, rating agencies and CMBS investors.• Trained in Six Sigma quality improvement techniques.

Mba, Finance

Activities and Societies: President, Wine Society.

B.A., Journalism

Activities and Societies: Editor, Washington Square News