Young Professionals Breakfast Series: New York with David Lazarus Eastdil and Michael Givner, PIMCO
David Lazarus
David S. Lazarus is a Managing Director at Eastdil Secured in New York and is co-head of the firm’s Corporate Advisory / M&A Practice. Eastdil’s Strategic Advisory Practice engages in a variety of activities for its clients including capital raising, M&A, and strategic divestures. In both his current and past roles, Mr. Lazarus has participated in many of the industry’s largest and most high profile transactions including IPO’s, Public Offerings, M&A, and various Special Committee assignments. Prior to joining Eastdil Secured in 2011, Mr. Lazarus co-founded a boutique real estate investment bank focused on advisory activities, EdgeRock Realty Advisors. EdgeRock specialized in advising private companies on equity capital alternatives including the IPO process. Mr. Lazarus spent 13 years as a Managing Director in the Real Estate Investment Banking Group at Lehman Brothers, which was acquired by Barclays Capital in 2008. From 1994 to 1996, Mr. Lazarus worked at the Yarmouth Group, a real estate advisor, as a capital transactions associate. Prior to that, Mr. Lazarus worked as a CPA at KPMG. Mr. Lazarus graduated with honors from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1993.
ABOUT THE FIRM
Eastdil Secured is a New York based real estate investment banking firm, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wells Fargo Bank. Eastdil Secured is the market leader in raising debt and equity capital for real estate companies and large scale commercial real estate projects including office, retail, hotel, apartments and industrial properties. The firm is active in property sales, financing, loan sales, capital raising and investment banking transactions.
Michael Givner
Mr. Givner is an executive vice president and portfolio manager in the New York office, where he leads acquisitions across the eastern U.S. for PIMCO’s commercial real estate team. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2022, he was with Morgan Stanley’s real estate investing group for 12 years, most recently as an executive director responsible for the northeast U.S. Previously, he worked as an acquisitions analyst at Credit Suisse DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners. He has 15 years of investment experience and holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He received undergraduate degrees from the Wharton School and the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.