Shep Wainwright

Owns, operates and franchises fast casual restaurants

Functions as a College/University

Savanna Partners focuses on investments in real estate assets located in the Northeast corridor of the US including New York, Boston and Washington, DC. The firm employs opportunistic strategies to invest in real estate assets across all the primary asset types including office, retail, residential, and industrial. Savanna Partners seeks investment opportunities that offer the potential for the realization of superior returns by adding value through asset management and/or property development and redevelopment. Savanna Partners makes direct equity investments that involve owning, developing, redeveloping, repositioning and operating real estate in a variety of locations and across a different asset classes. The firm participates in joint ventures that involve sourcing, acquiring and executing deals on behalf of and in partnership with major institutional partners. In addition, Savanna Partners selectively invests in performing and non-performing loans including first mortgage interests, B-Notes, mezzanine loans, bridge loans and preferred equity investments secured by the types of real estate that they buy, own and operate for their own account. Savanna Partners typically invests $5 million to $30 million per transaction, with additional capital provided by the firm's partners and lenders. The firm hold period is 3 to 7 years and their target return is 20% on average.