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Michael E.
Partner & Head of Real Estate @Chicago Atlantic
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WORK HISTORY
Partner & Head of Real Estate @Chicago Atlantic
Chicago, IL, US
Michael is a Partner & Head of Real Estate where he brings more than 20 years of institutional real estate investment and development experience to Chicago Atlantic. Throughout his career, Michael has partnered with some of the largest institutional real estate investors in the U.S. including the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), the California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS), RREEF, and Fidelity. Michael’s expertise spans complex zoning, entitlement, and environmental approvals; ground-up development and construction; multi-layered strategic capitalizations; and public-private partnerships that have included tax increment financing (TIF), municipal special service area bonds, and sales tax rebate vehicles.
EDUCATION
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Indiana University - Kelley School of Business
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Kelley School of Business Honors Program - Finance and Real Estate
ABOUT MICHAEL E.
Chicago Atlantic is a private markets alternative investment manager focused on industries and companies where demand for capital exceeds traditional supply. The firm’s investment strategies include opportunistic private credit and equity with focuses on loans to esoteric industries, specialty asset-based loans, liquidity solutions and growth and technology finance. Chicago Atlantic has closed over $2.7 billion in credit facilities. Chicago Atlantic’s team of over 85 professionals has offices in Chicago, Miami, New York and London.Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance, Inc.(NASDAQ: REFI) is a market-leading commercial mortgage REIT utilizing significant real estate, credit and cannabis expertise to originate senior secured loans primarily to state-licensed cannabis operators in limited-license states in the United States. Chicago Atlantic BDC, Inc.(NASDAQ: LIEN) is a specialty finance company that has elected to be regulated as a business development company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and has elected to be treated as a regulated investment company for U.S. federal income tax purposes. The Company’s investment objective is to maximize risk-adjusted returns on equity for its stockholders by investing primarily in direct loans to privately held middle-market companies, with a primary focus on cannabis companies. The Company is managed by Chicago Atlantic BDC Advisers, LLC, an investment manager focused on the cannabis and other niche or underfollowed sectors.
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