Capital Trust Finalizes $540M Investment Fund

NEW YORK CITY-Capital Trust is closing CT Opportunity Partners I LP, a private fund with total equity commitments of $540 million. The locally based company is committing to invest $25 million, with the remaining equity coming from third party investors.

According to a prepared statement, the fund will “seek to exploit immediate and longer term opportunities emanating from the current financial market dislocation.” The fund is managed by CT Investment Management Co. LLC, Capital Trust’s wholly-owned investment management subsidiary. A Capital Trust source could not provide GlobeSt.com with any information pertaining to the fund, noting that what’s in the release is all the information that it is being made public at this point.

John Klopp, CEO of Capital Trust, says in a prepared statement that “this fund represents another important step in the build-out of our investment management practice. Coupled with the high grade fund that we announced in June, we have raised over $1.2 billion of private equity capital in the last six months, positioning CT to take advantage of opportunities at all points in the real estate capital structure.”