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Flexner to Join Citi
April 16, 2008

Citi Institutional Clients Group has just announced that Thomas Flexner will join the firm as global head of real estate.

Flexner will direct commercial real estate activities across investment banking, commercial real estate finance and Citi alternative investments. He will report to John Havens, CEO of the Institutional Clients Group. Most recently, Flexnor was a vice chairman with Bear Stearns & Co. The move has been described as “streamlining" by Havens.

At Bear Stearns Flexner oversaw all of the firm’s commercial real estate activities including real estate, commercial mortgages, and principal investing. He was also head of the firm’s financial buyers group, which provides specialized financing and advisory services for leverage buyout sponsors, private equity funds and their portfolio companies.

Flexner joined Bear Stearns in 1993 from Eastdil Realty Inc.There he was executive vice president and co-head of investment banking.

 
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