Mark E. Williams
mwilliams@canyonpartners.comMark E. Williams is a Senior Director of Asset Management for Canyon Capital Realty Advisors. His responsibilities include portfolio management and value creation, debt and equity workouts, leading dispositions and serving as a resource for originations and acquisitions.
Based in Dallas, Mark has over 23 years of hands-on real estate experience in asset and portfolio management (debt and equity), risk management, acquisitions, dispositions, workout and restructure, ground-up development, redevelopment, and leasing/value creation. He has led transactions totaling almost $5Billion and negotiated over 130 Joint Ventures to acquire Multi-family, Office, Retail and Light Industrial assets in markets across the U.S. Mark joined Canyon after 14 years at GE Real Estate/GE Capital Real Estate where he held leadership roles in both the Asset Management and Leveraged Equity Investing platforms. Prior to GE he specialized in Retail Leasing, Sales and Tenant Representation with Grubb & Ellis in both the Dallas and Houston markets.
Mark started his career working as the in-house real estate department for a series of investment trusts focused on purchasing and repositioning distressed debt and equity assets in the Southwestern U.S. He holds a BBA in Finance from the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin, a BBA in Real Estate from the University of North Texas and a Master of Science in Land Development from Texas A&M University.
