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Verdant Capital Advisors LLC

Real Estate & Corporate Finance Advisory

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About Verdant Capital Advisors (VCA)

Verdant Capital Advisors is helmed by Malik H. Franklin, a 15-year veteran from wall street covering the real estate, technology & health care industries. He was raised north of $10 billion from the public and private capital markets for clients and has advised in over $5 billion of M&A transactions. Malik is a partners at SLB Capital Advisors, where he advises private equity firms and corporates on sale leaseback transactions. He is also an expert financial modeling, having helped firms, from start-ups to pre-IPO companies, capture their true business opportunity in their financial forecasts, and position those firms to raise capital from private and institutional investors.

  • More than 15 years of experience in real estate, health care and technology investment banking and 5 years as an advisor and independent sponsor in real estate PE, notably serving as an advisor to Fortune 100 companies in over $275 million of sale leaseback transactions
  • Most recently served as VP of Corporate Development for Solaria, raising capital, leading M&A and IPO-readiness efforts
  • Former CFO of First Capital Real Estate Trust, a diversified non-traded REIT
  • Previously Director of Real Estate Investment Banking at RBC Capital Markets and Vice President at Banc of America Securities where he was responsible for origination and execution of capital raising for both public and private real estate owners and operators
  • Malik started his career at Salomon Smith Barney with a focus on health care investment banking, moving on to Wit Soundview, a technology focused investment bank, where he rose to be a Vice President in M&A.
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