James Corl

James Corl is a Managing Director at Siguler Guff and joined the Firm in 2009. Mr. Corl oversees the Firm's distressed real estate investment activities, developing investment strategy and portfolio construction, identifying investment opportunities, structuring investments and monitoring the real estate portfolios.

Prior to joining Siguler Guff, Mr. Corl spent 13 years in the REIT investment industry, most recently as Chief Investment Officer for all of the real estate activities of Cohen & Steers, Inc., a leading investor in global real estate securities. Mr. Corl was directly responsible for over $30 billion of client assets invested in Cohen & Steers’ mutual funds and institutional separate accounts around the world. Under Mr. Corl’s investment leadership, Cohen & Steers delivered industry leading investment performance for its clients. Mr. Corl’s funds were twice awarded the “Lipper Leader” award for the best performing 3-year track record among all REIT mutual funds.

Mr. Corl spent the early part of his career in various distressed real estate investment activities. As an Associate with the Real Estate Investment Banking group at Credit Suisse First Boston, Mr. Corl was involved in acquiring portfolios of non-performing loans and distressed real estate assets for CSFB’s Praedium Real Estate Recovery Fund as well as restructuring troubled real estate companies as publicly traded REITs. In addition, Mr. Corl was also involved in early commercial mortgage-backed securitizations at CSFB. Previously Mr. Corl was an Associate with Chemical Bank where he developed disposition strategies for the bank’s foreclosed real estate portfolio. Prior to graduate school, Mr. Corl also worked for Arthur Andersen & Co. in the Real Estate Consulting Group, where he performed investment due diligence for investors in non-performing loans and distressed properties.

Mr. Corl holds a B.A. with honors in Quantitative Economics from Stanford University and an M.B.A. in Finance and Real Estate from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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