Tony Barkan

Title
Founder, CEO and Managing Principal
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Company
Allagash Partners

Tony Barkan is the Founder, Managing Principal, and CEO of Allagash Partners. Prior to founding Allagash, from 2008-2015, Mr. Barkan was one of five Founding Principals and the Head of Commercial Real Estate at Seer Capital Management, an SEC-registered investment management company with $4 billion AUM. Mr. Barkan planned and executed Seer’s LMI workforce housing value-add strategy; developed and ran the second largest global CMBS B-Piece investment businesses, driving transactions on over $20 billion of US CRE properties; and structured and invested into significant Mezzanine Loan exposure. Prior to Seer Capital, from 2001-2008, Mr. Barkan built and ran alternative investment platforms at Clinton, Harbert, and Sailfish managing portfolios with peak investor equity over $1 billion, a peak long asset portfolio over $10 billion, and peak total market exposure of almost $20 billion while leading teams as large as 20 people.

Notably, Mr. Barkan was an early identifier of the real estate-led economic crisis and by the beginning of 2007 had migrated his hedge fund portfolio to be entirely short using real estate-backed credit derivatives . From 1997-2001, Mr. Barkan was a Senior Portfolio Manager and investment committee member at Pareto Partners (originally Forstmann-Leff). Mr. Barkan began his career trading a range of real estate, commodity, and currency products at Salomon Brothers, Goldman Sachs, and ED&F Man Group from 1988-1997 . Mr. Barkan supports Here Arts Center, Scholars at Risk, and CaringKind: The Heart of Alzheimer’s Caregiving. Mr. Barkan graduated from Princeton University where he was selected to the Honor Committee, and he is a member of the Triple Nine Society.

Past Speaking Events

  • Multi Family, Retail & Hospitality Post COVID-19
    hosted by Sound Mark Partners LLC
    June 24, 2020
    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    Panel
  • The Working-class Multifamily Market: Approaching Its Goldilocks Moment
    hosted by Allagash Partners
    July 16, 2020
    11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
    Keynote
  • The Impact on Lenders of Covid Moratoriums against Eviction and Foreclosure
    hosted by Engineered TaxServices, Inc.
    September 10, 2020
    10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
    Panel
  • Multi Family Real Estate Update: Perspective From Different Regions
    hosted by Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial, LLC
    October 22, 2020
    11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
    Panel
  • Current Trends and Market Conditions in Hospitality, Multi Family and Office Real Estate
    hosted by Millennium Trust
    November 19, 2020
    11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
    Panel
  • Commercial Real Estate – Outlook for 2021
    hosted by Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial, LLC
    December 17, 2020
    12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
    Panel

About Allagash Partners

Allagash Partners offers institutional and HNW investors strategies focused on the wealth of opportunities within the US residential real estate market, stemming primarily from the longstanding, massive shortage in affordable working-class rental properties. These investments are currently being offered as both multi-property private equity real estate funds and as single property investments for compelling opportunities that do not fit within any current Fund’s mandate. The strategies are designed to be scalable and to consistently provide 15%+ net returns while also preserving investor’s capital. Allagash, through its subsidiary Allagash Opportunity Zone Partners which is in process of registering both with the SEC as an RIA and with the CDFI Fund at the Department of Treasury as a Community Development Entity, began active investment activities in 2019 with the Allagash Opportunity Zone CRE Fund I. The firm is now launching the Allagash Multifamily Opportunity Fund I, which seeks to opportunistically purchase, intelligently renovate, efficiently manage, and strategically sell underperforming working-class rental housing properties throughout the US. Allagash was founded by Tony Barkan who serves as Managing Principal and CEO and chairs the investment and operations committees. Allagash’s senior partners bring over 100 years of commercial real estate experience with particular expertise in working-class multifamily housing especially in secondary US markets, which Allagash believes can provide investment opportunities with outsized returns and moderate risk. Additionally, Allagash believes that projects which actively seek to provide a positive social impact should generate higher returns while presenting lower risk. As a result, Allagash seeks to work closely with communities into which it invests in order to understand their community development goals and methodologies for improving stability and resiliency.