Jeff Friedman

Jeff Friedman is Senior Advisor at Mesa West Capital, the commercial real estate finance company that he co-founded in 2004 and sold to Morgan Stanley. Prior to co-founding Mesa West, Mr. Friedman spent three years at Maguire Partners as a Principal and was in charge of capital market activities which included the restructuring of the firm’s debt, the buy-out of partners and the firm’s eventual $800 million initial public offering. Mr. Friedman transitioned into real estate finance in 1994 initially as a Vice-President at Nomura Asset Capital Corporation and beginning in 1996 as a Director at Credit Suisse First Boston in New York. Mr. Friedman began his career as a corporate lawyer, working initially in Tokyo, Japan for an affiliate of Sidley & Austin and then in New York for Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. Mr. Friedman graduated with a BA from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), an MA in Applied Economics and a JD from the University of Michigan. Mr. Friedman is on the Mortgage Bankers Association Board of Directors and is actively involved in Urban Land Institute.