 3-11-08 Breakfast Meeting
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BREAKFAST MEETING Catching the Falling Knife – The Real Estate Investment Decision
in an Uncertain Environment featuring Nicholas Bienstock Managing Partner Savanna Real
Estate Fund Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - 8 until 9 a.m. at Club 101 101 Park Avenue at 40th Street, NYC Lenders and Equity Providers Only • Advance Registration Not
Required Members - No Charge • Nonmembers - $40 at the door Nicholas Bienstock is a Managing Partner
of Savanna Real Estate Fund I, LLC (“Savanna”), a $300 million + institutional real estate private equity fund.
Savanna’s investors include a broad cross-section of public and private pension funds, insurance companies, endowments,
banks, foundations, and wealth management companies. At Savanna, Mr. Bienstock has developed relationships with institutional
lenders and third-party capital partners, as well as identified acquisitions and structured deals. Mr. Bienstock has
worked on the acquisition, financing, development, redevelopment, restructuring, and sale of over $4 billion of real estate
throughout the U.S. Savanna’s current portfolio contains approximately $1 billion of real estate, including office,
industrial, retail, and residential properties. Prior to joining Savanna in 1999, Mr. Bienstock was a Vice President at Capital Trust, Inc., in New York, where he worked on a wide variety of real estate principal investment and advisory transactions, including the purchase of equity interests in various properties, the negotiation and structuring of mezzanine loans, single asset and portfolio sales, asset management, debt and equity private placements, and REIT IPO advisory work. Prior to Capital Trust, Mr. Bienstock worked for Chemical Bank’s Real Estate Investment Banking Group. Mr. Bienstock received an M.B.A. from the Columbia Business School, an M.S. from the Columbia School of Architecture, and a B.A., cum laude, from Harvard College. Mr. Bienstock is an Assistant Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, where he teaches a seminar in Real Estate Finance to graduate students in the Columbia Architecture School’s Real Estate Master’s Degree Program. o - 0 - o
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