At Pacific Capital Partners, our mission is to empower our clients to make thoughtful and strategic investment decisions by providing trusted, best-in-class advice.

We understand the value of cooperation and knowing our company only exists because of our relationships -- the relationships we've built amongst ourselves, our clients, our partners and our resources. We firmly believe in the notion that our interests do not come first. To us, partnerships are built with mutually lateral interests at heart, with each person at the table invariably seeking ways to empower the others.

The ability to consistently deliver trusted advice isn't intuitive and it doesn't just happen overnight. We have been successful in establishing long-standing relationships with our clients through a combination of transparency and alignment of interests. Who we are in business with matters, and no one transaction is worth our reputation. Our primary directive is to help our clients customize their investment strategies and maximize their returns. We operate at our clients’ discretion, while providing expertise and advice to each client in order to achieve their unique goals and objectives.

Our vision is to be the real estate investment and advisory firm of choice.

Expert advice based on decades of experience in the real estate transactional and capital markets is already encrypted in our past. To amass a track record of ultimate viability and profitability for every financial advisory session, real estate acquisition or development is the goal and end-game benchmark that we strive for. 

We aspire to change the way that real estate investors and sponsors procure transactions and secure financing. We strive to provide the advantages of progressive strategies and extensive relationships and resources, enhanced by cutting edge technology, employed for the purpose of identifying and implementing the optimal structure and financial solutions for maximum economic benefit to our clients and their projects. This approach assures that our clients to GET THEIR PROJECTS DONE - even the tough ones - and MAXIMIZE PROFITABILITY.

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COMPETENCE 

We work tirelessly to stay ahead of industry trends and to seek out new resources and opportunities,

LOYALTY


We fiercely protect the interests of our clients, investors, funding resources, and business partners.

EFFICIENCY


From structuring transactions to developing properties, to running daily operations, we work diligently to make careful use of all resources and to avoid wasted time, money and effort.

ACCOUNTABILITY


Throughout the transactional and financing process, we insist on, and provide complete transparency, integrity and responsibility.

RISK


We access and mitigate risk at every stage of the process, and will not take on an engagement unless we are confident that we have the strategy and resources to perform and close.

For every client engagement, we follow a strict 3-step process that ensures that we understand the project, the request, the circumstances and needs of the client before formally engaging, and that we are confident in the likelihood of a successful outcome for the client:

EVALUATION

Collection, evaluation, and discussion of due diligence information with the client is critical in understanding and determining viability of the project.

ENGAGEMENT

Our standard Engagement Agreement defines our role and fee compensation, which is always performance based.  We do not work on any project without an executed agreement.

STRUCTURE & PLACEMENT

Engineering the optimal capital structure, and placing the most appropriate and economical components of debt and/or equity, are critical to the success of any engagement.

Our firm is comprised of partners with many years of relevant experience across various disciplines of the real estate sector including acquisitions, banking, development, asset management, joint ventures and structuring capital. 

From luxury residential properties to large portfolios of operationally complex assets, we apply both short-term and long-term strategies on all investments on behalf of our clients. We have invested throughout the risk spectrum from core to opportunistic transactions, across the capital stack including structuring mezzanine and preferred equity investments.

Since inception, we've been involved in over 300 transactions. Through the years, our core business has moved from strictly commercial capital advisory and placement, to now spanning a wide range of financial, real estate, and business services, including a heavy focus on luxury residential renovations on behalf of numerous funds as well as principal investment.