AION Partners acts as principal and arranger of opportunistic real estate investments in the US and was founded by the principals who built the real estate investment and asset management company DCD America over the last decade. The AION team has a proven track record of creating value and managing risk through redeveloping, repositioning and managing assets in order to maximize returns to its investors.

The AION executive team's experience as hands-on operators with the ability to structure and execute complex capital markets transactions provides a competitive edge which will allow the company to take advantage of future pricing dislocations on hard assets and debt. Led by Siraj Dadabhoy, Michael Betancourt and Peter Smith, AION's executive team has extensive experience in property acquisition and management, capital raising, debt restructuring and foreclosure.

AION's executive team shall continue to represent the UK Based DCD Group, which has been an investor in real estate worldwide for over 40 years, with approximately $3 billion in assets as of 2008. The fully integrated platform that reaches across the U.S. and the U.K. will allow investors to capitalize on extraordinary deal flow, orderly asset management and timely disposition of assets.

Over the past 10 years in the U.S., through a series of stand alone partnerships sponsored by investors, the AION team has purchased and operated a 1.3 million sf portfolio of office, residential and retail properties located primarily in the New York - Washington D.C. corridor. Since January 2009, the executive team has led the acquisition of 8 senior and mezzanine loans totaling $150 million, predominantly in the multifamily space.