Madison Realty Capital, a vertically integrated real estate private equity firm focused on real estate private credit, announced that Samir Tejpaul has joined the firm as managing director and head of capital markets. He is based in New York and will report to Brian Shatz and Josh Zegen, co-founders and managing principals of Madison Realty Capital.
Tejpaul has more than a decade of commercial real estate and investing experience leading loan origination and structuring, alternative asset backed lending and institutional capital raising initiatives. Most recently, he served as managing director and head of credit capital markets and specialty asset finance for Affinius Capital (formerly Square Mile Capital). During his tenure, he was responsible for sourcing, negotiating and structuring debt and equity transactions, capital raising, and managing the firm’s capital markets relationships. Since 2018, Tejpaul has led, structured or financed billions worth of gross lending deals across a variety of strategies, including transitional bridge loans, construction loans, preferred equity, CMBS and subordinate debt.
“Samir is a seasoned real estate investor with a history of scaling and driving value creating initiatives at real estate investment firms, and brings with him deep relationships with borrowers, asset managers, and institutional allocators,” said Zegen and Shatz. “Importantly, Samir has the entrepreneurial spirit and solutions-oriented mindset we seek and cultivate in all of our people. The need for experienced lenders with stability and certainty of execution is as great as it has ever been, and we look forward to Samir’s contributions as we continue to execute on behalf of our global investor base and enhance the robust platform we have built over the past 20 years.”
Prior to joining Square Mile Capital in 2018, Tejpaul served as a vice president in Deutsche Bank’s commercial real estate group, where he originated, structured and distributed whole loans and subordinate debt within the firm’s CRE, CMBS and balance sheet lending platforms. Tejpaul serves as chair of the Alternative Lenders & High Yield Investors Forum for the CRE Finance Council. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance and international Business from Georgetown University.
