G4 Capital Partners LLC, a real estate investment firm that in its nearly two-decade run has completed $4.8 billion in transactions, announced that George Rupp has joined the company as managing director of capital formation and investor relations.
In this new role, Rupp will oversee the firm’s global client franchise and investor partnerships. He will manage and grow the company’s existing investor base and cultivate additional institutional and family office relationships.
With over 25 years of industry experience, Rupp brings with him a wealth of knowledge spanning capital markets and institutional fundraising to family office management and hospitality development. He most recently served as senior managing director and capital markets special advisor at a prominent single-family office where he oversaw a $600 million commercial real estate development portfolio in Southern California on behalf of the principals behind Kimco Realty.
Prior to that role, Rupp held senior positions at Walker & Dunlop Investment Partners, Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors and Merrill Lynch. His institutional investor clients have included pension systems, insurance companies, endowments, foundations, and asset managers across the country.
“G4’s reputation is unequaled, be it the relationships they’ve built over their almost two decades in business, the depths and breadths of those relationships, or their track record of success,” says Rupp of his interest in joining the team. “They stand out in the industry as one of the very few firms active across all real estate property types originating such an enviable volume of loans and producing excellent risk-adjusted returns for their capital partners.”
Rupp joins the G4 team on the heels of several high-profile deal closings, including a $286 million multifamily construction loan with the Rabsky Group in the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn at 313 Bond St.; a $130 million construction loan with sponsor YS Developers that will facilitate the acquisition of a 68,00-square-foot development site at 960 Franklin Ave. in Crown Heights, Brooklyn; a $95 million recapitalization for the Marriott Moxy Williamsburg, a 216-key hotel owned by the Lightstone Group and a $46 million land acquisition loan of 888 Brickell Ave. The planned condo-hotel in Brickell is slated to be Miami’s tallest residential building, bearing the branding of Dolce & Gabbana. The Brickell land loan is the fourth credit transaction between G4 and Michael Stern’s JDS Development Group.
