Nominations

Following are our picks for this year's Lender Influencers. As always with this series, we focus on know-how and deal-making expertise—and not so much the hard numbers.

What are the qualities of a good leader? In ordinary, pre-COVID-19 times, the answer would be easy. In the midst of a pandemic the typical qualities are important but it quickly becomes clear that other traits are perhaps even more essential.

While amenities are always nice  — and certainly many of our nominees provide some cutting-edge ones — a Best Place to Work is a far more encompassing concept, including such matters as how employees are treated, the tenor of the corporate culture and the relationship the CEO and executives have within the enterprise and outside of it.

On the following pages you will find our picks of the leading influencers in the retail space. Like the rest of our influencer series, this group of…

Net lease is the backbone of the commercial real estate industry. An unassuming asset class—or perhaps better put, real estate strategy—net lease…

For much of this cycle there has been a wealth of capital flowing into CRE. But loan originations are only part of the story. The middleman and middlewoman—those…