Bio

Mr. Bennett joined Salem Partners in autumn of 2013 and is responsible for sourcing / business development, evaluating, execution, and structuring for the real estate banking practice. Mr. Bennett has 12 years of financial, banking and advisory experience at major financial institutions (AXA) and large public companies (News Corp / 21st Century Fox). At Salem Partners, his clients include large national developers, sponsors and real estate operating companies that focus on value-added and opportunistic strategies typically in partnership with larger institutional investors. Since joining the real estate banking team, the group has structured numerous programmatic equity joint-ventures, single-asset equity, and credit financings. Throughout his career, Mr. Bennett has worked on large and complex transactions in both the real estate and media sector. Prior to Salem, Mr. Bennett was a senior finance analyst at Fox Sports Media Group and worked on global media rights and M&A transactions in the sports sector with total values in excess of $10 billion. Mr. Bennett is a Los Angeles native and a graduate of University Of California at Santa Barbara.