Paul Hughson

Executive Managing Director at C-III Capital Partners

Speaker

Paul Hughson is an Executive Managing Director of Island Capital, the general partner of C-III Capital Partners. Mr. Hughson serves as Chief Investment Officer for Island and C-III, encompassing all capital deployment activities for debt and equity investments. Mr. Hughson serves as Chief Investment Officer for C-III Recovery Funds I, II and III as well as Island Recovery Fund IV and Island New York City Recovery Fund I, a series of value add and opportunistic private equity vehicles formed to capitalize on opportunities within the C-III and Island platforms. Mr. Hughson also served as President of C-III Commercial Mortgage and head of real estate lending for Exantas Capital Corp., a public mortgage reit managed by C-III.

Before his affiliation with Island Capital, Mr. Hughson was a member of the Lehman Brothers Global Real Estate Group for 15 years where he was the global head of credit distribution. Mr. Hughson joined Lehman Brothers to develop Lehman’s conduit securitization platform and subsequently became responsible for Lehman’s proprietary and client based CMBS and CRE CDO securitization businesses, as well as Lehman’s bridge equity and term loan and line of credit businesses.

Prior to Lehman, Mr. Hughson practiced real estate law with Thacher Proffitt & Wood. Mr. Hughson received his J.D. from the University of Virginia and his B.A. from Tufts University.