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Strategic Innovation
Strategic Innovation:
The Virtua Advantage
We seek out competitive advantages. We strive to turn challenges into opportunities to deliver the right solution, for the right time, and the right place.
Here’s how:
Proven Team
Internationally recognized brands trust our expertise and rely on our capabilities. We are deeply engrained in our subjects of expertise, each team led by authorities with lifelong careers in their chosen disciplines. Driven and collaborative, we are experienced in both growth and down markets, focused on the goal of delivering value in any cycle.
Life Cycle Management
Our funding, development, and management process is fully integrated in-house with frontline specialists to provide thoughtful and thorough solutions. We direct each stage of the investment life cycle to target risk mitigation, cost controls, and return optimization.
Cycle Resistant
We endeavor to build deals that thrive in both long and short market cycles. Our proven team, tax-advantaged focus, market diversity, and conservative debt structure work together, striving to deliver risk-adjusted returns.
Good Neighbor Benefit
We build strong community relationships to assist in synergizing opportunities and securing tax advantages for long-term project viability, while creating jobs and housing where we work. Being a good neighbor is good business.
Virtua Partners Core Values
Core Values
Principles drive every decision, every day.
These are a few of our core drivers:
Investor-Centric
ApproachWe want our investors to achieve financial freedom and long-term financial stability; their needs and risk profile are always at the forefront of any decision making.
Absolute
TransparencyWe strive for complete transparency to investors as we guide them through the investment strategy, capital deployment, and asset disposition.
Sophisticated
AdaptabilityOur experience through the market cycle gives us the unique ability to adapt to market trends, providing value-add strategies when markets turn adverse.
Comprehensive
ExperienceOur expertise across a range of verticals, along with our family of companies, allows us to successfully execute on investment opportunities.
Capabilities
Private Equity
Development
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Private Equity
Capital formation, fund structuring, fund administration, issuer sales, investor relations, and compliance for commercial real estate investments
Development
Deal acquisition, due diligence, deal structuring, entitlements, engineering, governmental relations, and dispositions for commercial real estate across North America
1031 Exchanges, Delaware Statutory Trust
1031 Exchange and Delaware Statutory Trust administration, and management for commercial real estate investments
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Leadership Team
Our team has deep experience managing commercial real estate investments through multiple market cycles. We are problem solvers who see opportunity in challenging markets and difficult projects. Our distinct advantage is our adaptability to complex market conditions and our expertise across multiple disciplines.
Quinn Palomino
Co-Founder & Principal
Bret A. Maidman
Executive Vice President, General Counsel
Nick Montague
Senior Vice President, Finance
Sunny Huang
Vice President, Research, Analysis & Underwriting
Quinn Palomino
Co-Founder & Principal
Entrepreneur, $2B in Workouts
Quinn is Principal and Co-Founder of Virtua Partners and its integrated real estate companies, which support the firm’s expertise in capital management, development, and asset management. Quinn has grown the company to managing over 2.7 Million square feet of commercial real estate nationwide. Prior to her current role, Quinn was the Director of Business Development for a commercial real estate workout firm in San Diego, CA where she participated in more than $2 Billion of TIC investments. She also accredits much of her valuable experience to her role as Partner at a San Diego-based construction and development firm, where she worked on projects with California state and city governments. Quinn was recently appointed to the board of the Arizona Commerce Authority.
Bret A. Maidman
Executive Vice President, General Counsel
30+ Years Experience
Bret is Executive Vice President and General Counsel for the Virtua group of companies. He also sits on Virtua Credit’s investment committee. Bret has over 30 years of legal experience in both business transactions and commercial, bankruptcy, and appellate litigation. He has acted as lead counsel on matters ranging from complex real estate and finance transactions to restructuring operating companies to litigating Chapter 11 plans through confirmation. Bret has been active in local, state, and national bar associations, written articles and spoken at numerous legal programs, represented pro bono clients in trial and appellate court proceedings, and served as a Pro Tem Judge for the Arizona Court of Appeals and President of the Arizona chapter of the Turnaround Management Association. For the first 19 years of his practice, Bret was an associate and partner at one of the leading law firms in the Southwest. He also practiced with a smaller firm and as a solo practitioner. Bret attended Brown University, where he graduated magna cum laude with majors in history and psychology, and Northwestern University School of Law, where he was Articles Editor for the Northwestern University Law Review.
Nick Montague
Senior Vice President, Finance
$4B in CRE Loan Analysis
Nick is Senior Vice President of Finance at Virtua Partners. He oversees finance, underwriting, deal acquisition, due diligence, deal structuring, and dispositions. With over 15 years of real estate experience, Nick has analyzed over $4 Billion of commercial real estate loans and investment opportunities. Nick has also managed a portfolio of development deals in excess of $250 Million.
Prior to heading up finance at Virtua, he worked with a commercial real estate workout and restructuring advisory company. Nick has experience encompassing a wide variety of commercial real estate property types across the country with specific focus on, finance, underwriting, proformas, valuations, complex joint ventures, capital structures, repositions, workouts and development. He received a BS from California State University, Long Beach with a double major in finance and international business.
Sunny Huang
Vice President, Research, Analysis & Underwriting
Sunny provides leadership at our Hong Kong Office, overseeing research and marketing in Asia, and supports Virtua in M&A, underwriting, and marketing globally. Her team builds financial models for potential investments and workout opportunities, with deep, localized research for commercial real estate, with market assessments, financials, and economic analysis.
Sunny has comprehensive research and acquisition experience in private equity with leading Chinese firms. She received an MSc in Investment Management from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and a B.S. in Finance from Zhejiang University.
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$1.2B
Restructurings
& Transactions20
Active High
Growth & Fixed
Income Funds10+
States
50+
Assets Sponsored
$220M+
Capital Raised
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