Senior Leadership
Deborah Smith
Co-founder & Managing Partner
Direct: (212) 620 2646
Fax: (212) 620 2665
130 W42nd Street, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10036
Email: dsmith@centercapgroup.com
Prior to forming The CenterCap Group, LLC, Ms. Smith was Co-Head of M&A and a Senior Managing Director with CB Richard Ellis Investors (CB Richard Ellis's $40 billion AUM investment management business). She joined CBREI in July 2007 to co-head the build out of the firm's M&A efforts. During her time with the firm, Ms. Smith provided global advisory and capital markets expertise in sourcing, structuring and executing entity-level real estate transactions, venture capital investments, joint ventures, and acquisitions or recapitalizations of undervalued or distressed real estate investment and development companies and portfolios. Ms. Smith led the firm's negotiation and acquisition of a majority interest in Wood Partners (one of the largest multifamily developers in the United States) in 2008 and maintained an active portfolio management role post acquisition. Her role at CBREI was later expanded to include a focus on corporate business development, including a key role in the firm's global portfolio review process. She was a member of the firm's Global Leadership Team, which overseas execution of strategies and best practices, and was a member of various internal task forces.
Previously, Ms. Smith was a senior banker in the mergers and acquisitions group at Lehman Brothers. There, Ms. Smith was hired as part of a team to build out Lehman's real estate M&A platform. Prior to Lehman Brothers, Ms. Smith worked on mergers and acquisitions with Wachovia Securities and Morgan Stanley. During her investment banking career, Ms. Smith has worked primarily with real estate, power and utility, oil and gas, media and communications, retail and healthcare companies. She has extensive experience in providing mergers and acquisitions, strategic advisory, restructurings and capital markets transactions advice to both public and private companies. Ms. Smith began her career in Australia working primarily on restructurings and privatization assignments.
Ms. Smith has been involved in more than $100 billion of mergers, acquisitions and restructuring transactions.
Ms. Smith has a Bachelor of Economics, with honors, and a Bachelor of Law, with honors, from the University of Sydney.
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