Don Pavlov.
Don Pavlov, 27
Associate at Newmark Knight Frank
Don Pavlov joined Newmark (NMRK) Knight Frank’s high-octane debt and equity structured finance group last November as an analyst, and it took just a couple of months for him to be folded into the mix as an associate.
Just a few months after that? Well, a pandemic shut down the industry.
What has shone through for Pavlov has been the experience in loan sales he gained prior to joining the team, led by heavyweights Dustin Stolly and Jordan Roeschlaub.
Since March, the team’s debt origination pipeline has, of course, slowed slightly, while its loan sales practice has ramped up. Things are beginning to stabilize now, with demand beginning to reemerge for new debt opportunities, Pavlov said.
Prior to NKF, Pavlov was a senior consultant within FTI Consulting’s real estate solutions group. Before that, he worked with Mission Capital Advisors’ commercial loan sales team. While he was a student at Cornell University, Pavlov worked as a procurement intern at then-Forest City Realty Trust in 2013, and as a development intern at then-DDR Corp. in 2014. He graduated in 2015, and took a role as an agency analytics analyst at Bellwether, where he stayed for several months.
While he’s closing in on just a year since his move to NKF, one of his deal highlights includes the $300 million financing on the more than 1.1 million-square-foot, loft-style office asset the Factory Building at 30-30 47th Avenue in Long Island City, Queens, where the two largest office tenants are Macy’s and JCrew.
