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mezzanine investors

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mezzanine investors

Persons or companies who advance money to a business and receive, in return, a combination of promissory notes and preferential ownership shares in the business. Just as the mezzanine is the balcony-type partial floor of a building, between the ground floor and the second floor,so too a mezzanine investor occupies the middle ground with more risk than the first and second mortgage lenders, but not as much risk as the owners and other investors. See also capital stack.



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Other mezzanine investors are more debt oriented and will want to generate more of their return from the coupon.
After three years at Goldman Sachs and three years as an investment officer for Starwood Mezzanine Investors and Starwood Opportunity Fund IV, he served from 1998 to 2007 in progressively senior roles at iStar Financial Inc.
Furthermore, the growth of the CRE CDO market has continued to encourage subordinate and mezzanine investors to lay off risk into CDOs instead of embracing a buy-and-hold strategy.
 
 
 
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