Dave Jacobs

Managing Director, Ackman-Ziff

Dave joined Ackman-Ziff in 2011, bringing with him a diverse commercial real estate background in investment sales and capital advisory. He is responsible for originating, structuring and the placement of senior and sub-debt and preferred and joint venture equity. Dave has sold or financed every major asset class throughout the eastern half of the United States with a particular emphasis on the Philadelphia MSA and Mid-Atlantic. Dave has spent his entire career in commercial real estate beginning in 2004 as an investment sales broker in the greater Philadelphia area, setting record price per square foot figures along the “Main Line”. He has represented high-net-worth individuals, private equity funds, private REITs, international investment groups, and pension fund advisors with their dispositions and structured finance needs. As an avid writer, Dave has forged important relationships with prominent real estate publications through his commercial real estate and finance blog. His content has been featured in monthly columns on GlobeSt.com called the Philly 411, and has been quoted or published in the Wall Street Journal, the Mid-Atlantic Real Estate Journal, the Philadelphia Business Journal, Benzinga.com and numerous other publications. Dave graduated from New York University with a B.A. in economics.