Akbar Tajani

Akbar Tajani is a seasoned real estate investment professional with expertise in origination, acquisitions, financing, and portfolio management across diverse investment strategies.

His investment experience includes handling lease-backs, joint venture equity, mezzanine loans, senior mortgages, and non-performing loans associated with various real estate property types.

He possesses a profound understanding of re-positioning, adaptive re-use, and development projects in the real estate sector.

Akbar Tajani has a solid academic foundation with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Southern California and an MBA from Columbia University's Columbia Business School.

Currently, he serves as the Managing Director of Real Estate at Barings, following a successful tenure at esteemed firms like Pine River Capital Management, Cantor Commercial Real Estate, Abraaj Capital, BlackRock, and Credit Suisse.

His portfolio management experience includes working with commingled funds, separate accounts, programmatic joint ventures, public mortgage REITs, and structured finance capital vehicles like CLO's.