{"id":1004161528,"date":"2016-12-16T05:23:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T13:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004161528"},"modified":"2022-12-08T19:07:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T03:07:21","slug":"executive-of-the-year-spotlight-bill-benjamin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/executive-of-the-year-spotlight-bill-benjamin\/","title":{"rendered":"Executive of the Year Spotlight: Bill Benjamin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Sanyu Kyeyune<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1004161529\" style=\"width: 154px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004161529\" data-attachment-id=\"1004161529\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/executive-of-the-year-spotlight-bill-benjamin\/bill-benjamin\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/12\/Bill-Benjamin.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"144,170\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Bill Benjamin\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Bill Benjamin (&lt;i&gt;above&lt;\/i&gt;) received Honorable Mention for the 2016 Investor of the Year award. &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/12\/Bill-Benjamin.jpg?w=144\" class=\"wp-image-1004161529 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/12\/Bill-Benjamin.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Benjamin (above) received Honorable Mention for the 2016 Investor of the Year award. \" width=\"144\" height=\"170\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004161529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Benjamin (<i>pictured<\/i>) received Honorable Mention for the 2016 Investor of the Year award.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>This article is one in a series of short profiles highlighting recipients of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluetoad.com\/publication\/?i=365454#{&quot;issue_id&quot;:365454,&quot;page&quot;:16}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CPE&#8217;s Executives of the Year<\/a> awards. Celebrating its 20th year, the program recognizes the contributions of commercial real estate&#8217;s top executives across all major business sectors and asset types.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>First-place winners and honorable mention awardees\u00a0are chosen by a confidential vote of the\u00a0CPE 100, an invited group of industry\u00a0leaders.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s installment explores Ares&#8217; global growth under the leadership\u00a0of Bill Benjamin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Honorable Mention: Investor of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bill Benjamin,\u00a0<\/strong>Partner &amp; Head of the Real Estate Group, Ares\u00a0Real Estate Group<\/p>\n<p><strong>Headquarters:\u00a0<\/strong>New York City<\/p>\n<p><strong>Years\u00a0with Ares:<\/strong>\u00a03<\/p>\n<p><strong>Previous roles:\u00a0<\/strong>Senior partner at AREA Property Partners (1995-2013).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ares by the numbers:\u00a0<\/strong>Between September 2015 and September 2016, Ares grew its portfolio by 6.25 percent, counting 170 properties under management, and increased active funds by 15 percent, reaching\u00a046 active funds under management. While Ares operates nine offices with 70 employees in the U.S., Europe and Asia, its firm-wide employee count was 915, and its firm-wide office count was 15\u00a0as of September 30, 2016.\u00a0Across the firm, Area and its active funds earned $80.4 million in total fee revenue\u00a0in 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The year in review:\u00a0<\/strong>Over the 12-month period ending September 30, 2016, Ares committed approximately $910 million of equity across 26 transactions and 87 properties and distributed\u00a0around $1.3 billion back to\u00a0its investors. At the same time, Ares&#8217; investors made\u00a0$1.75 billion in equity commitments across recently established U.S. and European vehicles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Executive appointments:\u00a0<\/strong>Ares invited\u00a0industry vanguards James Skinner and Rand April to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/new-independent-directors-join-ares-commercial-real-estate-corp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> join the company\u2019s board\u00a0as independent directors<\/a> in April. During Skinner&#8217;s 15-year run with Neiman Marcus Group, he served as COO and CFO until 2015, when he moved\u00a0to the role of vice chairman before retiring in 2016. Before Neiman Marcus, Skinner served as CFO for CapRock Communications Corp. and CompUSA\u00a0Inc. Rand April\u00a0retired from\u00a0international law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &amp; Flom LLP, after more than 30 years, having served as managing partner of the firm\u2019s Los Angeles office for 18 years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-caption-container right-image\">\u00a0<strong>Growing a European platform: <\/strong>Since joining Ares in 2013, Benjamin has assembled and developed a team of 70 professionals, each with distinct and extensive real estate\u00a0experience. When it was conceived in 1995,\u00a0Ares\u2019 European Real Estate platform comprised a tiny portion of an opportunity funds business based in the U.S. Now, thanks to Benjamin&#8217;s direction, the platform includes 10 funds and several separate accounts and co-investment vehicles, with\u00a0approximately $4.9 billion in equity commitments to support 150 opportunistic and value-add transactions.<\/div>\n<p>In April, a joint venture between pan-European<b> <\/b>retail real estate specialist Redevco and funds managed by Ares Management made its inaugural\u00a0acquisition when it\u00a0purchased of a portfolio of six retail centers in southern and western Spain for approximately \u20ac95 million ($101 million). Totaling\u00a0276,377 square feet, the retail parks were nearly fully leased with grocery, fashion and fast food tenants when the transaction closed.<\/p>\n<p><b>Building a diverse portfolio:\u00a0<\/b>In February of this year,\u00a0Ares announced that one of its active funds had made a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/ares-montage-deal-a-sign-of-ultra-luxury-hotel-segment-growth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strategic investment in Montage Hotels &amp; Resorts<\/a>, an ultra-luxury hotel developer, entailing the purchase of a\u00a0minority stake no greater than\u00a020 percent and the provision of\u00a0$200 million in future growth capital to Montage. The investment focused on expanding a portfolio of Montage- and Pendry-branded hotels and resorts.<\/p>\n<p>The following November, Ares partnered with TruAmerica Multifamily, providing $54.5 million in equity funding to facilitate the $236 million acquisition of a six-property portfolio containing 1,402 apartment units in the Baltimore area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2016, Ares allotted around $910 million of equity among 26 transactions and 87 properties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1245,"featured_media":1004161529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21791,23891,21742,21744],"tags":[33162,33124],"class_list":["post-1004161528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exec-of-the-year","category-national","category-latest","category-people","tag-ares-commercial-real-estate-corporation","tag-bill-benjamin"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.0 (Yoast SEO v28.0) - 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