Top Groups for Ground Lease Financing

Hoping to find some insight into who the top banks/bankers are for originating structured ground lease finance vehicles. Mesirow appears to be the top dog (thanks google) but I'm having trouble finding others that do the same.

Dumping a few questions out there: does every BB have a GL team w/in their structured finance group? Are there any other boutiques who specialize in this arena? If a group does CTL placements, is it pretty much guaranteed that they do GL placements as well?

Want to clarify that I'm not looking for a D/E broker... CW/JLL/CBRE etc. and location agnostic as this is relatively niche.

Thanks in advance.

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Can you elaborate on this?

Are you trying to buy the underlying land in existing ground leases or find owners that want to sign ground leases with you?

 

I have previously originated and structured $1B in CTLs and Ground Lease Financings on behalf of family offices. Feel free to DM me for more info. 

 

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