Chad Mestler

About Chad Mestler

Since 2001, Chad Mestler has served as CEO to The Helvetica Group, a real estate investment bank and family office providing innovative commercial real estate lending, distressed asset acquisitions, brokerage, fund management and advisory services. Helvetica aggregates investor capital in pursuit of greater alpha by targeting diligently underwritten, alternative investments secured by real estate assets. Prior to founding Helvetica Group, Mr. Mestler worked with emerging companies serving as a founder, advisor, executive and in-house counsel. He served as CFO and in-house counsel to an application service provider based in Switzerland responsible for all corporate finance activities and business development until its acquisition. Prior to this position, he was a partner and Director for an international investment banking firm providing financial advisory and business acceleration services to U.S. and European emerging growth companies including fairness opinions, mergers and acquisitions, private placements, road show presentations, structuring equity and debt financing, drafting offering memoranda and client strategy formulation. In this capacity he also advised an offshore venture fund achieving over 100% appreciation in just two years. He has been responsible for over USD $1 billion in transaction value including corporate finance, real estate investments, REO acquisitions and commercial loans consistently generating double digit returns for investors and managed funds.Specialties: Real estate finance, lending, real estate law, corporate finance, hard money loans, loan syndication, private placements, partnership and fund formation, family office, investment management, business and strategic planning, private money loans, commercial loans, retail centers, mortgage pools, mortgage technology, loan servicing, REO, multi-family, foreclosures, bankruptcy bailouts, bridge loans, AI, blockchain, tokenization, international business.

Experience

1. Managing Member

   Helvetica Group

   Jan 2008 — Present

   Managed Helvetica REO Investors, a series of special purpose investment funds that target distressed assets including foreclosed residential and commercial properties and non performing loans. The funds have successfully acquired over 500 properties in a dozen select states from national and regional banks as well as directly through foreclosure auctions.

Education

• Pepperdine University

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Accounting

  1989 — 1993

• Pepperdine Law

  Doctor of Law (J.D.), Banking, Corporate, Finance, and Securities Law

  1993 — 1997

• Pepperdine Graziadio Business School

  Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Corporate Finance, Business Planning and Entrepreneurship

  1994 — 1997

Skills

• Valuation
• Funding
• Brokerage
• Fund Accounting
• Investment Management
• Mortgage Banking
• Due Diligence
• Hedge Funds
• Ipo
• Loan Origination
• Financial Analysis
• Investment Banking
• Hard Money Lending
• Corporate Finance
• Mortgage Servicing
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Mortgage Lending
• Venture Capital
• Investors
• Joint Ventures
• Alternative Investments
• Loan Servicing
• Financial Structuring
• Loss Mitigation
• Capital Markets
• Real Estate
• Securities Offerings
• Mezzanine
• Financial Modeling
• Private Equity
• Real Estate Law
• Investments
• Acquisitions
• Equities
• Financial Advisory
• Corporate Governance
• Strategy
• Private Placements
• Real Estate Financing
• Real Estate Economics