Sep 19, 2013 – Danielle Kane

Mission Capital Plans Staffing

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Mission Capital Advisors has hired Jonathan More from Ackman-Ziff Real Estate Group as part of a push to expand its debt and equity team in New York. “I always ask my clients and friends ‘Who should we be targeting? Who’s up-and-coming in the market?’ and Jon’s name came up constantly,” said Jordan Ray, head of the debt and equities team. More has completed more than $2 billion of transactions throughout his career. He specializes in office, retail and residential financing. “He’s a very smart advisor with an unbelievable rolodex,” Ray said.
The firm is planning to make two to three additional hires in the New York region over the next six to 12 months and will add heads in other offices as well. “Right now our team is at
11 and within the next year we want to be at least double that,” Ray said.
In addition to New York, the company also targets deals in South Florida, Washington D.C., Chicago and the Midwest and various markets on the West Coast. Gregg Applefield, who joined Mission Capital’s debt and equity team in June, will be moving to the firm’s Newport Beach office by year end and will be looking to hire one to two new associates. Ultimately, the company wants to open offices in Los Angeles, Washington D.C., and Chicago.
After the downturn, Mission Capital focused on loan sales, but gradually has increased its debt and equity work. The firm is on track to do roughly $3 billion of debt and equity deals this year–a huge jump from its numbers in recent years– which Ray credits to a substantial increase in market liquidity. The firm closed $750 million of transactions in 2012 and $500 million in 2011.

Most recently, Mission Capital arranged a $128.5 million loan for two Miami luxury condominiums on behalf of Property Markets Group and JDS Development. The deal included a $106 million loan to develop a 190-unit property called Echo Aventura and a

$22.5 million land loan to develop Echo Brickell, a 166-unit property.