NewOak Capital has appointed Amy Levenson md and chairman of its newly formed commercial real estate loans and properties capital markets group, responsible for creating and executing real estate capital market solutions for clients. She has over 25 years of experience on Wall Street, primarily at Goldman Sachs and previously at Barclays Capital.

At Goldman Sachs, Levenson divided her tenure between institutional bond trading and sales to the hedge fund and insurance industries. Her brief tenure as md at Grubb and Ellis gives her experience in integrating real estate and capital markets to provide clients with a broad range of solutions.

Reporting to Levenson are: Jon Fischer, who is an md and previously served as the director of corporate real estate for Prudential Insurance Company; and Farrah Lakhani, an associate director, who was recently at the private equity firm Lightyear Capital and was formerly at Credit Suisse as an investment banker, where she focused on REITs and financial institutions.

James Frischling, president and co-founder of NewOak Capital, says: "Amy will lead an important part of the NewOak Capital business as she and her team will help our clients transfer risk or identify investment opportunities."

NewOak's commercial real estate loans and property capital markets group will offer structuring and execution solutions for entities looking to dispose or recapitalise real estate and related assets and loans. Asset types include REOs, CMBS, CLOs, CDOs, whole loans, mezzanine debt and stable to busted individual properties or pools of properties. The team has relationships with hedge funds, private equity funds, banks, insurance companies and REITs, and access to experienced developers, MAI appraisers and construction consultants.