Ray Cleeman

Head of Capital Markets at Pensam Residential

Speaker

Ray Cleeman is a Principal and Head of Lending at Pensam Capital a multi-faceted private real estate fund focused on investments within the multifamily sector. As a direct real estate lender, Pensam provides flexible capital solutions to real estate sponsors including high leverage bridge loans as well as mezzanine debt, subordinate debt and preferred equity.

Ray spent the formative years of his career on Wall Street having worked as an investment banker at Credit Suisse, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenerette, and Raymond James. He has been involved in the issuance of over $6 billion of high yield securities, the issuance of over $3 billion of private and public equities, and advised on over $7 billion of global M&A transactions. Previously, Ray was an SVP Finance & Treasurer of a publicly traded company and a lawyer at Shearman & Sterling.