How to Invest in Commercial Real Estate if You Know Nothing about Commercial Real Estate

David A. Dowell is a 20- plus-year veteran of the Commercial Real Estate industry and has held senior investment positions with a variety of large private equity and institutional investors. Over his career he has led the acquisitions, asset management and dispositions of over $5 billion of commercial real estate across the U.S. and U.K., and has built out several institutional investment platforms focusing on value add and opportunistic transactions. David is the founder and managing principal of Arliga Capital Advisors, a real estate advisory firm focused on providing strategic commercial real estate investment and asset management services to family offices and institutions for whom commercial real estate is not their core competency. Bruce M. Stachenfeld is a creative thinker, visionary and thought leader—all of this within the real estate industry - and is the founder and chairman of one of the top real estate law practices in the world, Adler & Stachenfeld LLP. Over his career, Bruce has worked on transactions worth tens of billions of dollars in New York City, throughout the US, and in many international markets as well. Bruce is one of the most prodigious real estate rainmakers in the brutally competitive New York City market and is respected as one of the top real estate lawyers in NYC. He is also a marketing guru, speaker, mentor, business advisor, and consultant as well as the author of The Real Estate Philosopher’s® Guide, and If You Want to Get Rich, Build a Power Niche.