Starwood Capital Group is a private investment firm with a primary focus on global real estate. Since its inception in 1991, Starwood Capital Group has raised more than $40 billion of equity capital and currently has over $51 billion of assets under management. Over the past 26 years, Starwood Capital has acquired over $86.5 billion of assets across all major real estate asset classes. Since found
ing Starwood Capital during the depths of the savings & loan crisis, Chairman and CEO Barry Sternlicht has overseen the Firm’s growth into a diversified investment company that today encompasses more than 2,200 employees and approximately 16,000 additional employees involved with a dozen portfolio operating companies. Including affiliated operations, the Firm maintains offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Greenwich, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Luxembourg, Miami, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. Throughout its history, the Firm has created a number of market-leading platforms to enhance operational efficiencies and maximize the value of its investments, including:
• One of the world’s largest public hotel companies (Starwood Hotels & Resorts).
• Two of the biggest commercial mortgage finance companies in the U.S. (Starwood Property Trust and iStar).
• One of the largest collections of multifamily apartments in the U.S.
• One of the largest homebuilders in the U.S. (Starwood Retail Partners).
• One of the largest publicly traded owners and operators of single-family rental homes in the U.S. (Starwood Waypoint Residential Trust, now trading as Colony Starwood Homes).
• One of the leading providers of residential sites to the U.S. homebuilding industry (Starwood Land Ventures).
• An innovative hotel management company, SH Group, thatis introducing the 1 Hotels and Baccarat Hotels & Resorts brands to the market.
• One of the U.K.’s leading hotel operators (Principal Hotel Company). The Firm and its affiliates maintain 10 offices in four countries around the world, and currently have more than 2,200 employees. Starwood Capital Group has raised more than $40 billion of equity capital since its inception in 1991, and currently manages more than $51 billion in assets. The Firm has invested in virtually every category of real estate on a global basis, opportunistically shifting asset classes, geographies and positions in the capital stack as it perceives risk-reward dynamics to be evolving. Over the past 26 years, Starwood Capital Group and its affiliates have successfully executed an investment strategy that involves building enterprises around real estate portfolios in both the private and public markets. Additional information can be found at starwoodcapital.com.
