Paul McDowell

CapLease, Inc. is a diversified real estate investment trust, which invests primarily in single tenant commercial real estate assets subject to long-term leases to high credit quality tenants. It focuses on properties that are subject to a net lease, or a lease that requires the tenant to pay all or substantially all property operating expenses, such as utilities, real estate taxes, insurance and routine maintenance. The company provides owners of single tenant real estate with a full range of equity, debt and mezzanine financing options. It has two complimentary business lines: owning single tenant properties and making first mortgage loans and other debt investments on single tenant properties. CapLease was founded by Paul H. McDowell, Shawn P. Seale and William R. Pollert in 1994 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Trade Street Residential, Inc. operates as a real estate investment trust. It focuses on acquiring, owning, operating and managing garden-style and mid-rise apartment communities in suburban submarkets of larger cities primarily in the southeastern United States, including Texas. The company also owns and operates apartment communities in Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. Trade Street Residential was founded on July 14, 2004 and is headquartered in Aventura, FL.

Sumitomo Corp. of Americas provides trading and investment services. Its services include distribution, project management, supply chain management, technology transfer, trade and logistics transport. The firm serves in the area of oil and gas, infrastructure, life style and consumer and natural resources. The company was founded in 1952 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP provides legal services. The firm serves to banking and financial services, energy, food and beverage, government entities, health care, information and technology, life science and manufacturing industries. The company was founded by Louis D. Brandeis and Samuel D. Warren in 1879 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

VEREIT, Inc. operates as a real estate investment trust, which provides real estate investment services. It owns and manages the portfolios of single-tenant commercial properties in the U.S. The company operates through the following segments: Real Estate Investment and Cole Capital. The Real Estate Investment segment acquires, owns and operates single tenant, freestanding, commercial real estate properties, primarily subject to long term net leases with high credit quality tenants. The Cole Capital segment engages in raising capital for and managing the affairs of certain non-traded real estate investment trusts. VEREIT was founded on December 2, 2010 and is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ.