Chuck Lee '94

Chuck Lee is a Director in Deutsche Bank’s Global Commercial Real Estate Group. He is primarily responsible for client and business relationship coverage and oversight over the execution of fixed and floating rate CMBS securitizations, involving among other things: the establishment and coordination of Loan Seller and Broker-Dealer syndicates, document negotiation, collateral and structural review with Legal Counsel, Rating Agencies, Servicers and Investors, RFP approvals and investor presentations. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank in 2007, Chuck spent ten years at JPMorgan Chase in the CMBS Capital Markets group in various securitization, bond structuring, and credit capacities where he was most recently Head of Transaction Management supervising securitization teams in New York and Atlanta.  Since 1997, he has been directly involved with the securitization of over $75 billion of commercial mortgage assets across 54 transactions with primary oversight in either an execution or structuring capacity of over 37 transactions totaling over $63Bn.  In his last year at JPMorgan, Chuck founded a Defeasance Advisory practice within the CMBS Capital Markets group that provided consulting services to borrowers wishing to defease commercial mortgage loans and create the related Successor Borrower entities to assume the defeased debt.

Chuck began his professional career in the mid-1990s at Financial Conservators Inc. where he performed asset management, workout and liquidation services for the RTC and FDIC. He currently resides in the Borough of Manhattan in New York City, New York and holds a B.A. in Economics from The Johns Hopkins University and an M.B.A. in Finance from Yale University.