Landmark Dividend
Landmark Dividend LLC is one of the nation’s largest and most successful ground lease acquisition companies. We provide value, capital and liquidity to qualified property owners who lease their property for cell towers, billboards, wind turbines, utility-scale solar farms and fiber optic networks.
Real Estate Specialization
| Net Lease |
Investment Type
| Acquisition/Fee Simple |
Arthur Brazy
Mr. Brazy has more than 25 years of experience in the real estate, financial services and investment industries. Most recently, Mr. Brazy was Founder and served as CEO of Church Mortgage Acceptance Co., LLC (“CMAC”), one of the leading direct lenders to churches in the country. From 2001 to 2006, he served as CEO of Lakefront Ventures LLC, a private investment firm specializing in commercial and mortgage finance, private equity investments and structured finance advisory services. During the 1990s, Mr. Brazy founded and led a series of private investment partnerships that raised and provided more than $5 billion of financing to small businesses and commercial real estate owners nationwide. Prior to that time, he was an officer with Eastdil Realty, a diversified real estate investment bank owned by Wells Fargo. At Eastdil, he was responsible for advisory assignments and major property debt and equity capital placements totaling more than $1 billion on a wide variety of existing and to-be-built properties including office buildings, hotels, shopping centers and industrial projects. Mr. Brazy received a B.S. degree in Economics from the California Institute of Technology, pursued further graduate studies as a fellow at Oxford University, and received an M.B.A. from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.
Jeffrey Knyal
In 2002, Mr. Knyal founded the ground lease acquisition industry and has been involved in the purchase of more than 3,000 ground leases while raising more than $650 million of equity, mezzanine, and senior debt for these assets. Mr. Knyal designed all aspects of these businesses and is the leading expert in the ground lease acquisition industry. He also founded and held senior executive positions at three other specialty finance companies and raised more than $4 billion of capital for these businesses. These companies generated more than $150 million in profits and IRR equity returns of greater than 150 percent. Previously, Mr. Knyal spent seven years in investment banking working in the Mergers and Acquisitions and Asset-Backed Finance groups at Dean Witter Reynolds and Greenwich Capital Markets, respectively. Mr. Knyal graduated from the College of Business at the University of Illinois and has an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.
George Doyle
Mr. Doyle has held senior executive positions with a variety real estate companies. Most recently, he served as the Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and Treasurer of Clearview Hotel Trust, a Hospitality REIT that was in registration with the SEC for a public offering. Mr. Doyle was responsible for all accounting and finance operations. Mr. Doyle also served as the Senior Vice President – Chief Accounting Officer, at HCP, Inc., an S&P 500 REIT traded on the NYSE that invests primarily in healthcare real estate. At HCP, Mr. Doyle was responsible for all accounting and financial reporting, and participated in the acquisition, integration, and financing of over $10 billion in real estate. Prior to HCP, Mr. Doyle served in various positions with the accounting firm KPMG, LLP, including as a senior manager. He holds a B.A. in Business from Western Washington University.
Dan Parsons
Mr. Parsons is a seasoned financial services executive with over 20 years of experience in software development, technology management and IT governance. He specializes in leading agile teams as they develop cutting-edge line-of-business and workflow enhancing software solutions. In previous positions, he has dramatically increased efficiencies by developing comprehensive customized solutions for loan origination and servicing as well as institutional investor servicing and private investor pool management systems. Mr. Parsons received B.S. and M.B.A. degrees from the Marshall School of Business Administration at the University of Southern California.
Peter Kleinberg
- +1 310 584 7196
- pkleinberg@landmarkdividend.com
Alex Stone
- +1 310 294 8178
- astone@landmarkdividend.com
Oscar Velez
- +1 646 964 6728
- ovelez@landmarkdividend.com
Steve Durand
- +1 248 760 8722
- sdurand@landmarkdividend.com