Bryan Shaffer is Principal & Managing Director at Slatt Capital where he focuses on delivering solutions to address his clients’ real estate capital requirements. Mr. Shaffer has 35 years of capital markets and CRE finance experience with an extensive history of arranging debt and structured financing for commercial and multifamily properties nationwide. Mr. Shaffer has successfully structured both debt and equity placements for private entrepreneurs and institutional clients. He has been able to utilize his prior vast and diverse experiences in owning, operating, developing commercial real estate to help him succeed in capital raising for multi-family, affordable, office, retail, industrial, hospitality, data centers, healthcare/medical and senior facilities sectors to provide the best options and structure for his clients.
In his career, Mr. Shaffer has been deeply involved in over $8.5 billion in real estate transactions, including the structuring or arranging over $6 billion of debt and equity placements and the repositioning and sale of $2 billion of properties for a Japanese institutional investor, Mitsui Real Estate Sales/Mitsui Fudosan. His focus is understanding the needs of clients large and small, so with his team, they can provide the best solution in the market. Mr. Shaffer closed transactions with every type of capital provider including Banks, Insurance Companies, Family Offices, Private Equity Firms, Bond Funds, CTL Lenders, Funds, Community Development Lenders, and Institutional Investors. He serves on the direct investment committee for Clearinghouse, CDFI and has advised two family offices.
Prior to joining Slatt Capital in 2023 alongside Ruben Bohbot, together as Team Shaffer/Bohbot, Bryan served as Managing Director & Pricipal at George Smith Partners. Additionally, Mr. Shaffer ran his own global investment advisory company, led dispositions for the world’s largest real estate owner, created a global trade association and operated projects for several development firms. He has served as a contractor for the United States Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC), as an Expert Witness and California Superior Court Receiver.
AFFILIATIONS
Board of Directors, Los Angeles World Affairs Council & Town Hall (2019-Present)
Opportunity Zone Fund, Investment Committee, Clearinghouse, CDFI (2019-Present)
Direct Investment Committee, Clearinghouse, CDFI (2016-2018)
Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Real Estate Deal Strategies (2021)
Forbes Finance Council (2021-Present)
Mr. Shaffer is a graduate of University of Arizona, Eller College of Management with a focus on Real Estate and Finance. He has been a guest lecturer at the USC Marshall School of Business on CMBS Lending and Commercial Real Estate Finance, a speaker at the Berkeley/Fisher Center Real Estate & Economics Symposium as well as a moderator and panelist at numerous industry conferences.
