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25-Year CRE Veteran Joins Greystone in CMBS Group

Alison Coen has joined Greystone as a senior managing director in the firm’s CMBS lending group, based in New York. In this role, Coen will focus on CMBS loan production.

With 25 years’ relevant commercial real estate experience, Coen joins Greystone from Barclays, where she was a managing director. At Barclays, she closed and securitized over $2.6 billion of conduit loans. Previously. Coen was a director at Natixis Real Estate Finance, where she worked as a CMBS and balance sheet loan originator. 

“I look forward to being involved in the multitude of capital solutions that Greystone offers, including agency and bridge lending,” said Coen. “However, Greystone’s ambitions to grow in the CMBS sector was the main draw for me, as I’ve been involved with CMBS lending for the past 10-plus years. I look forward to contributing to the growth of this platform.”

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