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Founding team members of AKS Capital Partners. Clockwise from left: Aaron Appel, Keith Kurland, Adam Schwartz, Jonathan Schwartz. Image courtesy of Walker & Dunlop<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

Walker & Dunlop is raising its profile in the nation\u2019s most active office market by snapping up New York City-based capital markets advisory shop AKS Capital Partners.<\/p>\n

Through the deal, the Bethesda, Md.-based finance heavyweight has acquired a 15-person team led by Partners Aaron Appel, Keith Kurland, Jonathan Schwartz and Adam Schwartz. They will join Walker & Dunlop as senior managing directors and co-heads of the New York Capital Markets Practice.<\/p>\n

Founded last summer, AKS comprises professionals with a $50 billion track record of originations for commercial real estate owner-operators, chiefly institutional clients. Walker & Dunlop\u2019s newly acquired team will source and structure financing for all commercial real estate asset classes nationwide.<\/p>\n

The acquisition will augment Walker & Dunlop\u2019s client base while ramping up the company\u2019s presence in New York City and strengthening its debt brokerage capabilities beyond multifamily assets, according to a statement. New York Stock Exchange-listed Walker & Dunlop has a nationwide headcount of more than 800 professionals across 39 offices.<\/p>\n

Big financing deals<\/h2>\n
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The Crown Building. Image courtesy of Bjoertvedt via Wikimedia Commons<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

Highlights of AKS\u2019s Manhattan activities include a $749 million refinancing package<\/a> for a revamp of 355 Madison Ave. and an $807 million debt refinancing for the Crown Building, a mixed-use property at 57th<\/sup> St. and Fifth Ave. Founding team members Appel, Kurland, Schwartz and Schwartz previously worked at JLL, where they were annually named the highest-producing debt and equity advisers.<\/p>\n

In one of their last deals at JLL, Appel, Kurland and Jonathan Schwartz in April 2019 helped secure a $664 million construction loan<\/a> for 9 DeKalb Ave., a supertall luxury and affordable residential tower in downtown Brooklyn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The commercial real estate finance firm will ramp up its New York City presence by adding a 15-member capital markets team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":744,"featured_media":1004386748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21825,23891,1600,21742,21747],"tags":[41330,47609,37252,44213],"class_list":["post-1004386742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","category-national","category-new-york","category-latest","category-office","tag-aaron-appel","tag-aks-capital","tag-jonathan-schwartz","tag-walker-dunlop"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWalker & Dunlop Acquires AKS Capital Partners - Commercial Property Executive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/walker-dunlop-acquires-aks-capital-partners\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Walker & Dunlop Acquires AKS Capital Partners\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The commercial real estate finance firm will ramp up its New York City presence by adding a 15-member capital markets team.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/walker-dunlop-acquires-aks-capital-partners\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Commercial Property Executive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CPExecutive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-01-30T18:08:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-01-30T18:29:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2020\/01\/Crown-Building.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"620\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Greg Isaacson\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cpexecutive\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@cpexecutive\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/walker-dunlop-acquires-aks-capital-partners\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/walker-dunlop-acquires-aks-capital-partners\/\",\"name\":\"Walker & Dunlop Acquires AKS Capital Partners - Commercial Property Executive\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/walker-dunlop-acquires-aks-capital-partners\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/walker-dunlop-acquires-aks-capital-partners\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2020\/01\/Crown-Building.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-01-30T18:08:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-01-30T18:29:28+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/1a92010198045e41b0b801129a41b3d8\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/walker-dunlop-acquires-aks-capital-partners\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/walker-dunlop-acquires-aks-capital-partners\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/walker-dunlop-acquires-aks-capital-partners\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2020\/01\/Crown-Building.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2020\/01\/Crown-Building.jpg\",\"width\":800,\"height\":620,\"caption\":\"The Crown Building. 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