Carey J. Flaherty
Principal

Mr. Flaherty serves as Principal with primary responsibility for the oversight of Madison’s U.S. investment activities including the origination, underwriting and execution of transactions for Madison’s managed investment funds.  Mr. Flaherty is involved in all aspects of the investment process including financial analysis, property due diligence, transaction structuring and execution.  Prior to joining Madison in 2003, Mr. Flaherty worked in the Real Estate Investment Banking group at Deutsche Bank.  While there, Mr. Flaherty analyzed real estate private equity investments and structured debt products for the firm’s balance sheet, managed investment funds, and third party clients. Mr. Flaherty earned a BA degree from Columbia University.

 
Derek O. Jacobson
Principal

Mr. Jacobson serves as Principal with primary responsibility for the oversight of Madison’s European investment activities including origination, underwriting and execution of transactions for Madison’s managed funds.  Mr. Jacobson works on all aspects of financial analysis, property due diligence and transaction structuring with specific focus on closed-end funds and equity recapitalizations in Germany, the U.K. and Madison’s other non-U.S. markets. Prior to joining Madison, Mr. Jacobson was a financial analyst for Taurus Investment Holdings, an international real estate private equity firm, where he served in the acquisitions and underwriting group. Mr. Jacobson is fluent in German and earned a BA degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

 
Christopher S. Mendez
Vice President

Mr. Mendez serves as Vice President with responsibility for the underwriting and execution of equity investments on behalf of Madison’s managed funds. Prior to joining Madison in 2009, Mr. Mendez worked for Morgan Stanley Real Estate, where he was engaged on both investment banking and investing transactions. Prior to business school, Mr. Mendez worked for IBM Business Consulting Services (formerly PricewaterhouseCoopers), where he specialized in financial and risk modeling for Federal government agencies, including the Federal Housing Administration. Mr. Mendez received his BS from the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University, with a concentration in financial management, and his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, with a double major in finance and real estate. In addition, Mr. Mendez is a CFA charterholder and a member of the New York Society of Securities Analysts.

 
Alex J. Lukesch
Associate

Mr. Lukesch serves as an Investment Associate with responsibility for the underwriting and execution of Madison’s equity transactions including all aspects of financial analysis, property due diligence and transaction structuring. Mr. Lukesch works closely with both the Frankfurt and New York office on equity transactions in Europe and in the US. Prior to joining Madison, Mr. Lukesch was at Lincoln Property Company, a real estate investment and management company, where he was a key member of a value added fund. Before his time at Lincoln, Mr. Lukesch was with Corus Bank, where he worked on the underwriting, structuring and closing of real estate construction loans. Mr. Lukesch is a fluent German speaker and received a BS in Economics from the Wharton School with concentrations in finance and real estate and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania with a major in international studies.

 
Evan Cohen
Associate

Mr. Cohen serves as an Investment Associate with responsibility for all aspects of transaction underwriting, financial diligence, and structuring of Madison’s U.S. and U.K. equity transactions. Mr. Cohen’s target investments include existing limited partnership interests, structured equity investments, equity recapitalizations, and secondary interests in U.K. property unit trusts. Prior to joining Madison International Realty, Mr. Cohen was an analyst for Metropolitan Real Estate Investors, LLC, a real estate investment and management company where he focused on the acquisition of office properties in major cities throughout the United States. Prior to joining Metropolitan Real Estate Investors, LLC, Mr. Cohen was a key member of the acquisitions and dispositions team at Rockrose Development Corp., a real estate development company located in New York where he focused on the acquisition and disposition of office and residential properties in New York and Washington D.C. Mr. Cohen received his BA from Muhlenberg College in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance.

 
 
Matthias Cordier
Associate

Mr. Cordier serves as an Investment Associate with primary responsibility for the underwriting and execution of Madison’s equity transactions including all aspects of financial analysis, property due diligence and transaction structuring with a focus on Germany and Western Europe. Mr. Cordier works closely with both the Frankfurt and London office on equity transactions in Europe. Prior to joining Madison, Mr. Cordier spent four years with the European Commercial Real Estate Group of Deutsche Bank, where he worked on the underwriting, due diligence, structuring and closing of financings for commercial real estate assets in Germany and Western Europe. He was also part of the team responsible for the structuring, sourcing and due diligence of a German closed-end retail fund including the analysis of the overall closed-end fund market. Mr. Cordier is a German native speaker and received a BA from CSU in Milwaukee with a major in International Business and a BA degree in European Business from the University of Applied Sciences Worms (Germany).

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