Mark A. Walsh

Mark is a Managing Director of Lehman Brothers, Head of the Global Real Estate Group, and a voting partner in all of Lehman’s real estate private equity funds. Mr. Walsh is in his twentieth year with Lehman Brothers where he has overseen the firm’s distressed mortgage debt acquisitions, real estate equity and lending activities.  During his career at Lehman Brothers, Mr. Walsh has overseen the origination of more than $300 billion of commercial real estate debt and equity transactions (both for the firm and its private equity business).  Under his leadership, Lehman Brothers has been a top ranked CMBS underwriter both globally and domestically over the past decade and compiled very successful equity investment tract record. In addition to his responsibilities in Real Estate, Mr Walsh is a member of Lehman Brothers’ Investment Committee, the Lehman Brothers’ Management Committee and the Fixed Income Operating Committee.  Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, Mr. Walsh was a lawyer and represented financial market transactions. Mr. Walsh is also a Founding Member of the Ziman Center for Real Estate at UCLA and holds a B.A. from the College of the Holy Cross and a J.D. from Fordham Law a School.