Midwood Capital Partners
Creative Capital Solutions
We combine our core competencies in real estate finance with a powerful network of strategic capital to achieve creative capital solutions.
Our Services
Loan Acquisition Due Diligence
For Performing, Non-Performing and Distressed Debt on all asset classes. Our team has deep industry knowledge across a wide array of real estate asset types, markets, and debt/equity product types which ensures vigilant, detailed, and accurate analysis while identifying and addressing material deal issues.
As an extension of Client’s diligence initiative, our team will help clients in thoroughly analyzing the assets, loan documents, identifying red flags that should be anticipated in the transactions, and developing an exit strategy for each loan. Exit strategies may include hold to maturity, restructure, discounted payoffs, deed-in-lieu, or foreclose.
Loan Restructuring & Workout Advisory
We help commercial real estate owners and lenders navigate through market uncertainty and the loan restructuring process. Our team consists of former owners and bank lenders who understand both sides and can help negotiate successful loan modifications that benefit both parties. Loan restructuring may include interest rate and amortization relief, maturity extensions, debt subordinations, discounted payoffs, and recapitalizations.
Capital Solutions
We assist in providing creative debt and equity capital solutions for commercial real estate owners and alternative lenders. We believe that deep experience and strategic relationships empower customized capital solutions.
About MCP
Midwood Capital Partners, LLC is an investment and consulting firm that provides a wide array of services catering to commercial real estate owners, banks, and alternative lenders. Our diverse experience in commercial real estate and asset-based lending includes the sourcing of a broad assemblage of debt and equity capital for property and note acquisition financing. Our experience also makes us particularly qualified to help clients with various assignments including loan modifications, workouts, property and note sales, transaction due diligence, and asset management on all property types nationwide.
Meet The Founder
Brian Skurnik
With over 25 years of commercial real estate lending and management experience, Brian Skurnik has worked in new business origination, structuring, underwriting, credit/risk management, asset/portfolio management, note and property acquisitions and dispositions, loan syndications and CLO/CMBS securitizations. Brian most recently worked for Pacific Western Bank (fka; CapitalSource) for over 13 years and was a Managing Director and Head of Commercial Real Estate. As head of the group, he was responsible for managing the teams that originate, underwrite and service real estate bridge loans to ensure overall consistency in sourcing, structuring and pricing new business, as well as compliance with underwriting, portfolio management and credit guidelines. Furthermore, he has extensive experience in real estate debt, mezzanine and equity products as well as securitizations.
Prior to joining Pacific Western Bank, Brian worked at Barclays Capital in loan originations, and played a key role as one of the early members of the group in building the lending platform and infrastructure. Before Barclays he held positions at investment banking firms where he was primarily responsible for originating fixed rate and floating rate loans with a capital markets orientation. Brian also spent 7 years at Heller Financial where he initially worked as a lending officer in the asset-based and specialty lending group before transferring to the real estate division. At Heller, he had various underwriting and asset management responsibilities across a diverse array of financing products including senior and mezzanine debt, and preferred equity for all asset types.
Brian is a graduate of Brooklyn College receiving a degree in Business, Management & Finance, and is affiliated with real estate organizations including ULI, ICSC, RELA, CrefC and MBA as well as NYU Shack School of Real Estate where he was an adjunct professor.
Testimonials
Matthew A. Pestronk
President and Co-Founder
Post Brothers
Brian is the consummate real estate credit and investment professional. Brian sticks to his word like an old- school banker but delivers solutions at the cutting edge to meet the needs of his borrowers and counter-parties. Brian will not let you down.
Daniel Stauber
Managing Director
Rexxhall Realty, LLC
Brian is an outstanding human being, and brings to the table a tremendous amount of knowledge in the arena of financing. He is a compassionate person that gives 100% effort and gets the job done!!!
Joshua Caspi
Principal
Caspi Development
Brian is a genuine person. Rare in the world of banking. I truly appreciate Brian’s sincerity and thoughtfulness. I’ve done some great business with him.
Jay A. Neveloff
Partner and Chair
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
I have worked with Brian for a number of years and have consistently appreciated his ability to understand issues, see the forest from the trees and have a business oriented solution. He is always available, and has a great way of dealing with clients, professionals and those on the other side of transactions.
Aaron Stauber
President
Rugby Realty Co., INC.
Our company focuses on complex reposition plays that others may deem to have too many warts to overcome. Fortunately, Brian has always been able to understand the underlying value and to use his creativity and resourcefulness to structure loans that matched our needs. Over the past 10 years, we have successfully closed on over $150 million transition loans with Brian.
Nicholas J. Santoro
Senior Managing Director
Centennial Property Finance
I’ve known Brian over 20 years and have worked together as both colleagues and counterparties. We have successfully closed complicated transactions in an environment of intense engagement and collaboration. Brian is a competent, creative and honest banker who genuinely cares about his clients and helping them find creative financing solutions.
Joshua Crane & Robert Schwartz
Co-Founders & Principals
Spruce Capital
We have worked with Brian for a number of years both as a borrower and a co-lending partner. He has always been responsive, professional and creative in finding optimal solutions for all parties involved in a transaction. We look forward to doing more business together in the near future.
Michael Shah
Founder / Managing Partner
Delshah Capital
I am happy to know Brian Skurnik both professionally and personally for 8 years. He is one of the most diligent and commercial members of the credit community that I have ever worked with, including with respect to many acquisitions of property, performing loans, and distressed notes. He has a sophisticated and flexible understanding of sponsor capital needs and sensitivities, which especially aids in finding solutions to complex capital issues, including particularly with respect to loan restructurings, workouts, and rescue capital. These skills will translate especially well in the current market environment and likely ensuing challenges to come, especially with lender dispositions of notes and REO properties.
David M. Martin
Partner
Arent Fox LLP
I have worked with Brian for nearly 15 years. Brian is a skilled real estate finance leader with a keen understanding of the credit markets and a gift for developing and maintaining strong client relationships. Having navigated through numerous cycles in the real estate market, Brian is well positioned to advise clients during challenging times.
Rohun Khanna
Managing Partner
Lasso Partners
I have known and worked with Brian for a decade and you will not find a more honest, trustworthy, and diligent individual. Aside from Brian's deep industry knowledge and relationships, he also brings to the table creative thinking and a solutions orientated mentality which separates himself from other individuals and institutions.