Jake Levin

As Director of Equity Capital Markets, Jake completes Yale’s Capital Markets division, which provides advisory and structuring services for all facets of the capital stack and ensures a vertically integrated national provider and ‘one-stop shop’ for any client’s needs. Jake will be responsible for assisting operators in optimizing their capital stack through strategic and financial structuring via introductions to qualified common and preferred equity investors, mezzanine debt lenders, or strategic partners in the industry. His function will include equity capital introductions for programmatic relationships, one-off acquisitions, portfolio acquisitions, capital for development projects, and equity for existing portfolio recapitalization plus future growth capital.

Jake brings a vast network of relationships to the Yale Team with over 20 years and $2.5 billion of experience in real estate and leverages finance transactions. Prior to joining Yale, Jake worked for AFCGamma (a NASDAQ-listed mortgage REIT focused on lending to the cannabis industry), Stackhouse Capital, Inc. (a family office-backed boutique real estate investment and advisory firm focused on multifamily and self-storage), Cantor Commercial (a division of Cantor Fitzgerald), and Deutsche Bank, beginning his career in their famed Leverage Finance Group.

Jake graduated with a BA in History from Princeton University and an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was on the Dean’s List.