"We hired B&C because they bring a creative approach. They are strategic thinkers who always see the optimal solution and they give better individual attention."

Thomas P. Gates

Tom Gates is an affiliate consultant to Bartram & Cochran and is currently associated with HIGroup, LLC, a boutique real estate investment-banking firm. He brings more than 25 years of commercial real estate experience to Bartram & Cochran as asset manager, advisor, and investor with an extensive background in creating, enhancing, preserving and harvesting value in all major commercial real estate sectors. Mr. Gates' expertise includes strategic asset management, capital transactions, and debt and equity restructuring/workouts. Mr. Gates' broad experience allows him to view situations from multiple perspectives and bring thoughtful strategies and timely execution to bear.

With a recent emphasis on retail assets, Mr. Gates' experience includes senior asset management responsibilities with a large national syndicator, a NYSE retail REIT, private equity firms and private developers, representing these firms as principal investor, venture partner, manager and debtor. He has successfully managed national investment portfolios, executing capital and operating strategies for real assets of all major types, quality and maturity through all of the major prior down-cycles in the prior three decades.