Real Estate Finance Veteran Is New Visiting Professor

Scott Robinson

Scott Robinson—a 15-year veteran in the real estate finance field with extensive experience in real estate investment banking, including secured debt securitization, unsecured debt syndication, and equity valuation—has joined the Schack Institute this spring as a visiting clinical assistant professor and the new codirector of the REIT Center at NYU.

Robinson is the founder and managing partner of Cadence Capital Group, LLC, a New York-based real estate capital markets advisory and consulting firm. He was previously vice president of real estate investment banking at Citigroup, where he worked on more than $4 billion of floating-rate loan securitizations and a number of large syndicated loans, including Anaheim Garden Walk and Club Corp. Prior to that, Robinson spent eight years as a senior credit analyst in the Real Estate Finance Group at Standard & Poor’s, where he evaluated the credit profile of both real estate investment trusts (REITs) and commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS).

In addition to teaching a graduate-level course in real estate capital markets, Robinson will work with the REIT Center at NYU and oversee the generation of macro and company-specific commentary on the real estate sector.

He is a graduate of the University of California-Riverside with a degree in economics and a minor in accounting. In 1998, he earned an M.S. in Real Estate with a concentration in Finance and Investment from the Schack Institute. Robinson currently serves on the board of directors for Monmouth Real Estate Investment Trust.