M. Myers Mermel
Chief Executive Officer, Mermel & McLain Management
New York, NY 10111
Phone (212) 943-7777 x11
Bio
Mr. Mermel has over 30 years of experience in real estate finance, advisory, acquisition, and principal activities in New York City. Over this period he has completed $42B in public/strategic advisory, $23B in private financial advisory and 25MM square feet of acquisitions. He is currently Managing Member of Mermel & McLain Management LLC, a real estate acquisition firm, and Chief Executive Officer of Tenantwise, a real estate advisory firm.
Prior to Mermel & McLain and Tenantwise, Mr. Mermel was Chief Executive Officer of Corsair Group (“Corsair”), a real estate investment bank formed in a joint venture with Morgan Stanley, in 1994. Over a five-year period, Mr. Mermel led Corsair in real estate advisory assignments totaling over five million square feet. Some representative clients included Uniroyal Chemical Company, Vornado Realty Trust, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, Banque Nationale de Paris, Marvel Enterprises, Stern Stewart, and the Governor of New York (Post 9-11).
Mr. Mermel has originated, structured and acquired interests in 48 Wall Street, 660 Madison Avenue and 104 West 40th Street in Manhattan.
Mr. Mermel was appointed to a three-year term (1997-1999) as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Commercial Brokerage Division of the Real Estate Board of New York (“REBNY”), the youngest person ever to hold this position. At the conclusion of his service, he was appointed as a Governor of the Board of Governors of REBNY; again he was the youngest Governor ever appointed.
Mr. Mermel received a B.A. from the University of Vermont, where he was President of the Senior Men’s Honorary Society. He also received an M.A. from Columbia University in American History and an MDiv. from the Yale Divinity School. He serves as a Trustee of the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale. He served for eight years as Trustee of the New York Annual Conference (highest Methodist Board in New York and Connecticut); for eight years as a Trustee of Christ Church United Methodist Church; for four years on The Board of Visitors, Columbia University, Department of History; for five years as a past Trustee of the New York City Mission Society (New York City); and for eight years as an Officer of The Delta Psi Corporation, a not-for-profit institution founded in 1850 (Burlington, Vermont).
