The Anka Real Estate Opportunity Fund is a spin-off private equity firm investing in niche small and middle market transactions (typically less than $25 million of equity) on an opportunistic basis throughout the U.S. Led by a team experienced in acquiring and managing real estate for large institutional capital sources, Anka is focused on providing sustainable solutions to under-served situations where it can leverage its platform and specialized knowledge to purchase assets burdened by financial, environmental or municipal concerns. Anka adds value to assets to produce strong community and stakeholder outcomes. The principals of Anka have worked together since 2002, helping Cherokee Investment Partners and its affiliates invest opportunistically in and manage distressed real estate for their various private equity funds. The principals believe conditions in underserved assets within the middle market offer strong opportunities and spun off to form Anka to capitalize on these unique circumstances, strong proprietary deal flow and specialized knowledge. The Anka team has successfully invested in and/or managed middle market real estate investments and has a unique platform in place to execute on these opportunities.
Anka principals have significant experience developing partnerships with public entities that increase stakeholder value in challenged or priority transactions by leveraging public resources with private capital, creativity and expertise. Anka principals have been recognized as some of the foremost experts in identifying, accessing, securing and structuring public partnership for their complex projects, having pioneered certain programmatic structures, authored specialized federal legislation authorizing new programs and publicly testified before committees of the United States Congress on four occasions about how to creatively add value to underserved, challenged or distressed sites. Often the public-private structures and finance programs that Anka works with are obscure, require sophistication to access and structure or are not immediately available, but for the relationships Anka brings to the table.
