FTI Bolsters Cap Markets Practice

WASHINGTON, DC—FTI Consulting Inc., headquartered here, is expanding its capital markets practice within the real estate & infrastructure group with a pair of new hires and a promotion. Eric Hamermesh has joined FTI as managing director and Sam Khazary has come aboard as director, while senior managing director Michael VanderLey has been tapped to lead the real estate capital markets practice.

In common with Khazary, VanderLey will be based in FTI's San Francisco office, while Hamermesh is based in Los Angeles. VanderLey, who joined FTI in 2009, has more than 30 years' capital markets experience in every major real estate asset class.

"Today's market provides both real challenges and exciting opportunities for owners and developers seeking capital for growth, investors seeking to deploy capital and operating businesses seeking to enhance or unlock enterprise value," says VanderLey. "Both Eric and Sam bring noteworthy backgrounds and deep industry relationships to FTI Consulting, where we see capital markets as being a key link in the value chain our real estate practice provides to clients."

Before joining FTI Consulting, Khazary was a VP at RCS Capital Corp., where he helped lead strategic advisory services on sell-side and buy-side M&A engagements. Prior to RCS, he served as a director of due diligence at Cole Capital, where he oversaw business development initiatives and worked with external advisors to underwrite exit strategies for its various non-listed REIT programs.

Hamermesh has 35 years of experience in real estate and real estate capital markets. Previously he held positions at Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse, Canyon Capital and George Smith Partners Inc.