Joseph Morningstar – Managing Director, Capital Markets

Mr. Morningstar joined Hudson Realty Capital in July 2011 as a Managing Director, focusing on sourcing special situation equity and debt investment opportunities and establishing an advisory services platform.  With 30 years of experience in real estate investment banking as an advisor and transaction agent, Mr. Morningstar has executed real estate and note sales, financings, recapitalizations and advisory assignments throughout the U.S. on behalf of institutional, entrepreneurial and eleemosynary clients such as LNR, The Carlyle Group, TIAA, UBS, A.R.E.A., Tishman Speyer, Lehman, The MacArthur Foundation, Fordham University, Battery Park City Authority and the Pritzker Family.  Most recently, as a Partner at Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, he was responsible for over $8.0 billion of real estate and note sales, equity/debt financings and recapitalizations for office, residential, retail, hotel, land and large-scale development projects throughout the U.S.  In 1991, Mr. Morningstar co-founded Rockwood Realty Associates, where he provided advisory and transactional services on over $4.0 billion of real estate and real estate related corporate transactions.  Prior to that, he was Vice President of AFA Asset Services, a fiduciary for real estate and venture capital investments on behalf of high net worth European investors.  He began his career as a Project Manager at 42nd Street Development Corporation where he worked on the Ford Foundation-sponsored proposal for the Times Square Redevelopment Plan.  Mr. Morningstar holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University.