Thomas Harney is Head of Merchant Banking & Capital Markets at Ladder Capital. Mr. Harney worked at Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. for over eleven years and served as Senior Managing Director of Real Estate, Gaming, Lodging & Leisure and Co-Head of the Real Estate Investment Banking Group during his tenure at the firm. Mr. Harney also served as Head of Real Estate at Tri-Artisan Capital Partners, a private merchant banking group based in New York. Mr. Harney has extensive experience in completing large-scale M&A transactions as well as a broad range of securities transactions including bank, bond, mortgage, and convertible debt, and common, preferred, convertible, and joint venture equity in multiple formats including private placements, IPOs, and follow-on offerings for issuers in all major property categories. Mr. Harney started his career in 1983 at Olympia & York Properties and subsequently held senior investment banking and principal investment roles at Merrill Lynch and BT Securities. Mr. Harney holds Series 7, 24, and 63 Principal/Supervisor FINRA security designations and holds a BA degree in Urban Studies (Magna Cum Laude) from the University of Pennsylvania and is a graduate of the New York University Real Estate Finance & Development Program.
Summer Nemeth is a Director within the Merchant Banking and Capital Markets team at Ladder Capital. Prior to joining Ladder Capital, Ms. Nemeth served as a Vice President at JF Capital Advisors, a boutique investment bank serving the hospitality industry, where she worked on debt, follow-on equity, asset acquisition and going-private transactions for public clients. Ms. Nemeth started her investment banking career at Bear Stearns, working on transactions including mergers and acquisitions of public and private companies, asset sales, equity financing, high yield financing and bank financing. Ms. Nemeth holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Economics and Computer Science with highest distinction from the University of Michigan.
David Merkur is an Associate Director within the Merchant Banking and Capital Markets team at Ladder Capital. Prior to joining Ladder Capital, Mr. Merkur served as an Associate at Tri-Artisan Capital Partners, a private equity and merchant banking firm based in New York, where he worked on corporate buy-outs, mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financings, restructurings, minority investments and private placements. Mr. Merkur started his career at Merrill Lynch in the Media and Telecommunications Investment Banking group, where he focused on mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buy-outs, debt and equity offerings and recapitalizations. Mr. Merkur holds a B.S. in Applied Economics and Management with high distinction from Cornell University.