Anchor Real Estate Capital is a private equity investment management firm focused on the acquisition, development, and management of real estate assets in the United States.
Anchor Real Estate Capital is a private equity investment management firm focused on the acquisition, development, and management of real estate assets in the United States. Headquartered in Irvine, California, with another office in Beijing, China, Anchor facilitates Asian capital (institutional, family offices, and high net worth investors) investment into the Unites States. Anchor primarily focuses on residential development opportunities including market-rate multifamily, student housing, senior housing in key West Coast markets, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Bay Area and Seattle.
Mr. Liang Wu is the Managing Partner of Anchor Real Estate Capital, a private
equity investment management platform focusing on acquisition, development, and
management of real estate assets in the United States on behalf of Asian capital
(institutional, family offices, and high net worth investors). Liang has 20
years’ real estate experience in both China and the U.S.
Before co-founding Anchor, Mr. Wu was an Executive Director at Warburg
Pincus, focusing on real estate investment in China. At Warburg Pincus, Liang
led the residential co-investment efforts with Chinese developers and also
covered other real estate sectors including office, retail and industrial. Prior
to joining Warburg Pincus, Liang was a Director with CarVal Investors in the
Shanghai office also covering Chinese real estate investment opportunities.
Mr. Wu also previously worked at Casden Properties in Beverly Hills and Ernst
& Young's Kenneth Leventhal & Company in Los Angeles. Liang has
extensive transaction and asset management experience in both countries, having
been involved with transactions over $2.5 billion in both the U.S. and
China.
Mr. Wu received his Bachelor of Engineering degree from Tsinghua University
and his MBA from Pepperdine University.
Guangmao “Calor” Yan
Co-founder and Partner
Mr. Yan is currently a Managing Partner at Centaline Property, one of the top
real estate brokerage firms in China. He manages the Beijing office of Centaline
Property, which handles over $5 billion of transactions each year. Mr. Yan is
also the founder and Chairman of Beijing Yi Tong Jia Ye Investment Co., Ltd.,
which provides debt/equity capital to major Chinese real estate companies for
the development of residential properties in many of China’s fastest growing
cities.
Mr. Yan graduated from Beihang University in 1997 and joined Centaline in the
same year. He obtained his MBA at the University of California, Irvine, in
2004.
Marion Fong
Senior Advisor
Ms. Fong has over 28 years of experience in the real estate industry. She has
a strong working knowledge of many aspects of real estate investment and due
diligence. She has assisted clients with acquisitions, dispositions, transaction
structuring, workouts, and restructuring and capital access. She has worked
extensively with senior management and boards of directors of private and public
real estate companies, opportunity funds, and advisors.
Ms. Fong was a Partner in the Real Estate Advisory Service Group of Ernst
& Young LLP and a Senior Manager at Kenneth Leventhal& Company. Ms. Fong
earned her BA in Economics from Occidental College, is a member of the Urban
Land Institute, and was a member of the Counselors of Real Estate. She has
served on the Honorary Board of the University of Southern California Lusk
Center Ross Minority Program for Real Estate.
Weiqun Wang
Senior Vice President
Ms. Weiqun Huang joined Anchor Real Estate Capital since its establishment.
As the Senior Vice President, she oversees daily operation of Beijing office,
coordinating the team to accomplish project due diligence, negotiation,
structuring, financing, investor relations and asset managements.
Ms. Huang has 15 years of experience in investment management and business
development in both China and the U.S. Before joining Anchor Real Estate
Capital, Ms. Huang was the general manager of an affiliate of Anchor,
responsible for debt and equity investments. Her prior experience includes
working at F&T Group (New York), focusing on the business development of
commercial properties, and SK (China) where she was responsible for financial
due diligence of the company’s M&A projects in China of various industries.
In addition, she also previously worked at KPMG in the audit division.
Ms. Weiqun Huang graduated from University of International Business and
Economics in 1998. She obtained her MBA in 2007 at Ivey Business School,
University of Western Ontario in Canada.
Tia Ren
Investment Manager
Ms. Ren’s main responsibilities include deal underwriting, market and
property due diligence, asset management and investment oversight. She works
with developers, investment partners and third-party consultants on daily basis,
assisting the team in acquisition, asset management, financing and disposition
of real estate investments.
Prior to joining Anchor, Ms. Ren worked at Thor Equities, where she assisted
the fundraising for property acquisitions in NYC, SF and London. Before that,
she was a consultant with Deloitte’s securitization group, servicing fund
managers and investment banks on fixed income products.
Ms. Ren holds a BBA in Finance from the Mendoza College of Business at the
University of Notre Dame and an MSRE from New York University.
Yida Wang
Analyst
Mr. Wang is responsible for new investment due diligence, asset management,
real estate analysis and valuation modeling for acquisition, disposition, and
development opportunities.
Prior to joining Anchor, Mr. Wang was a real estate investment analyst at New
York State Common Retirement Fund, where he analyzed and evaluated investments,
performed due diligence, created valuation models, business plans and investment
memos. Mr. Wang previously worked at BBMG Group in Beijing and started his
career in the Acquisitions & Development team at Shanghai Municipal
Investment (Group) USA in New York.
Mr. Wang received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics from the
University of Denver and earned a Master of Science degree in Real Estate from
New York University.
United States office
15635 Alton Parkway. Suite 117
Irvine CA 92618
United States of America
Tel: +1 (949) 396 2666
Fax: +1 (949) 236 4466
Email: info@anchorrecapital.com