Michael Halperin

Managing Director at Contrarian Capital Management

Speaker

Mr. Halperin joined Contrarian in 2004 and is a Managing Director and Real Estate Research Analyst. He is responsible for acquisitions and asset management of private real estate investments. Prior to joining Contrarian in 2004, Mr. Halperin was a Senior Vice President in the real estate group at Oaktree Capital Management, LLC. Mr. Halperin’s responsibilities at Oaktree included acquisitions, asset management and the disposition of distressed real estate assets in the United States and Europe. Before Oaktree, from 1992 to 1996, Mr. Halperin was a Senior Investment Analyst and Asset Manager in the real estate division of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, where he was responsible for the repositioning and asset management of troubled assets located in California, Arizona and Colorado. From 1991 to 1992, Mr. Halperin was an Account Officer with Citibank Real Estate, Inc. Mr. Halperin received an MBA from the Yale School of Management and a BA from the University of California at Los Angeles. Mr. Halperin is an active member of the Urban Land Institute.