Company Profile
  Mission and Corporate Culture
  Investment Strategy
  History
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About Us
CommonWealth Partners is a fully integrated private real estate investment, development, management and operating company based in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1995, the company combines the value-creating talents and hands-on operating expertise of an entrepreneurial development company with the discipline and research capabilities of an institutional investment firm. The company owns and manages premier institutional-quality office properties across the United States.

Company Profile
CommonWealth Partners, LLC is a vertically integrated, privately owned, real estate investment, development and management organization. CWP offers a wide array of services including investment & capital market transactions, portfolio management, asset management, property management, marketing, leasing, development, and accounting/reporting, all with a sharp focus on our customers.

The Company has established a reputation for excellence by providing superior results to its tenants and business partners alike. CommonWealth Partners has successfully combined the value-creating talents and hands-on operating expertise of an entrepreneurial, results-oriented development company with the discipline and research capabilities of an institutional investment management firm — evaluating each opportunity from the perspective of an investor, an operator and a developer.

Our senior executives and experienced team have been involved in acquiring, planning, entitling, developing and selling well over 25 million square feet of large-scale, premier-quality office and mixed-use projects that set new standards of excellence in serving the needs of corporations, professional firms and financial institutions.

As a result, CommonWealth Partners has earned an outstanding reputation for providing some of the world’s most successful businesses with the best in office environments — premier properties in superior locations — resulting in attractive risk adjusted returns to our institutional investment partners.

Mission and Corporate Culture
CommonWealth Partner’s mission is to provide an unmatched level of service to our tenants and financial partners by combining the highest level of investment, operating and development capability and experience.

CWP has successfully created a corporate culture that combines the value-creating talents and hands-on operating expertise of an entrepreneurial, results-oriented development company with the discipline and research capabilities of an institutional investment management firm. CWP evaluates each opportunity from the perspective of an investor, an operator and a developer. Our corporate culture places paramount importance upon integrity and high performance standards; our team of real estate professionals provides strategic thinking, superior execution and in-depth knowledge.

Investment Strategy
Investment Objective

CommonWealth Partner’s objective is to maximize risk-adjusted returns at all points of the real estate cycle. CWP works vigorously to carefully identify, assess and mitigate risk and our team strives to create unique opportunities for our partners and investors that are responsive to their goals and provide attractive risk-adjusted returns.

Investment Strategy
CWP’s “Cycle Sensitive” investment and management strategy accommodates and seeks to benefit from the cyclical nature of the real estate business. By combining sophisticated capital markets analysis, development, investment management and asset management with broad in-house operating capabilities and experience, CWP is in the optimal position to maximize risk-adjusted returns at every point in the cycle.

CWP’s vertically integrated structure provides us the opportunity to pursue investment opportunities of varying risk profiles including land entitlement, development, build-to-suits, value-added and existing core properties; further we can uniquely evaluate each investment from the perspective of an investor, operator and a developer.

History
CWP was founded in 1995 by senior members of a diversified development and operating team that had worked together for 15 years. Together they acquired, planned, entitled and developed over 20 million square feet of large-scale, premier-quality office and mixed-use projects that set new standards of excellence in serving the needs of corporations, professional firms and financial institutions.

The CWP team has established a reputation for excellent economic results, development and operating creativity, financial discipline, arbitrage and risk-mitigation strategies and large deal expertise.

As an investment partner of CalPERS since 1998, CWP has acquired and managed Class-A office and mixed-use properties across the United States.

Executive Team
Our Senior Management Team includes:
— Michael W. Croft, CEO, Co-Managing Principal
— Brett J. Munger, President, Co-Managing Principal
— Richard C. Lewis, Principal
— Joe Corrente, Senior Vice President
The key senior Principals of CommonWealth Partners have worked together for more than 20 years, have over 35 years experience in the real estate industry and come from a background founded in strong financial fundamentals.

These Principals founded the Company to provide consistent and unmatched levels of service to a select group of clients by combining the highest level of capability and experience with an intense concentration of effort on their behalf. Since the Company’s genesis in 1995, we have built a staff of employees with expertise in all areas of real estate investment, development and management.

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