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Taft Joins Aztec Group

MIAMI-The managing director of Cohen Financial takes a senior position with the locally based firm.

By Carl Cronan | Updated on April 16, 2009

MIAMI-Locally based Aztec Group Inc. has hired Howard Taft as senior managing director. The 30-year real estate financing and sales veteran previously served as managing director of Cohen Financial’s local office, as well as senior managing director at Holliday Fenoglio Fowler in Coral Gables.

Taft, who was with Cohen Financial for the past five years, says his new position with Aztec Group will allow him to increase his own interests in real estate investment. “I feel that the next 18 months will provide unprecedented opportunity for principals to acquire real estate at a substantial discount to replacement cost,” Taft tells GlobeSt.com.

Taft has been responsible for managing the origination, analysis and placement of real estate debt and equity throughout the US, closing more than $3 billion in transactions to date. His principal role with Aztec Group, a real estate investment and merchant banking firm, will be to originate and manage funds to provide gap equity and mezzanine financing, joint ventures and preferred equity for acquisition and refinancing of existing properties, including note purchases.

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