Mr. Smith is a Director at RobertDouglas currently based in New York City. Prior to his current role, Mr. Smith spent three years in New York as a credit analyst with Macquarie Group, where he evaluated over $2 billion of new business opportunities across the organization’s middle-market leveraged finance and balance sheet lending platforms. Prior to that, he worked in the front office department of a luxury hotel in his hometown of Sydney, Australia.
During his three years at RobertDouglas, Mr. Smith has advised on over $1 billion of hotel financing assignments, including the following closed transactions:
Denihan Manhattan Collection (NY): JV restructuring and senior financing
70 Park Hotel (NY): Investment sale
Tarrytown House Estate and Conference Center (NY): Investment sale
The Jade Hotel Greenwich Village (NY): Investment sale
Wyndham Garden Chelsea West (NY): Investment sale
Best Western Seaport Inn Downtown Manhattan (NY): Investment sale
Residence Inn Hartford Downtown (CT): Investment sale
Mr. Smith is a graduate of the Master of Management in Hospitality program at Cornell University. He graduated from the University of Sydney in 2009 and has also studied at the HKUST Business School in Hong Kong.