Dan Cooperman
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- Full Name
- Dan (Daniel) Cooperman
- Title
- Managing Director / Chief Originations Officer
- Firm
- Terra Capital Partners LLC (associated with the contact details above); now Chief Originations Officer / Head of Investments at Mavik Capital Management
- Firm Type
- Commercial real estate private credit and investment manager (not an early-stage/tech venture fund)
- Investment Stage
- Commercial real estate debt and structured equity — senior bridge, mezzanine, and preferred/JV equity (Note: the "Seed Round" label from the source stub does not match this individual's actual, verifiable activity, which is CRE financing, not startup seed investing.)
- Check Size
- Middle-market loans generally ~$10M–$50M (some sources cite a broader $15M–$100M range)
- Target Company Profile
- Property owners, sponsors, and developers of institutional-quality commercial real estate seeking transitional or gap financing
- Sector Focus
- Commercial real estate — bridge lending, mezzanine loans, preferred equity, and joint-venture equity across major property types
- Geographic Focus
- United States (nationwide)
- Location
- New York City (Terra Capital Partners, 805 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10022)
Background
Dan Cooperman is a commercial real estate finance executive with roughly two decades of experience in the acquisition, financing, leasing, and management of commercial real estate nationwide. He is most closely associated with Terra Capital Partners (which operates at tcp-us.com and matches the contact details above), where he served as Managing Director and later Chief Originations Officer. He joined Terra in 2003 and led the sourcing and structuring of the firm's middle-market debt and structured-equity investments.
Before Terra, Cooperman managed the debt-placement activities of The Greenwich Group International, a real estate investment-banking firm. Earlier he was an Assistant Vice President in Chase Manhattan Bank's Global Properties Group, working on the bank's strategic real estate acquisitions and divestitures, and he spent roughly three years in acquisitions and asset management at JGS, a Japanese conglomerate with global real estate holdings. He earned a B.S. in Finance from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
More recently, Cooperman has been listed as Chief Originations Officer / Head of Investments at Mavik Capital Management, a New York–based alternative-investment firm founded by former Terra leadership. In that role he continues to focus on originating and structuring commercial real estate credit and opportunistic investments, and he appears on industry panels such as IMN's Real Estate Private Funds events.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- Invests across the commercial real estate capital stack: senior bridge loans, mezzanine debt, and preferred/JV equity, providing "creative and immediate capital solutions to property owners and developers nationwide."
- Targets middle-market transactions, historically in the ~$10M–$50M range (some listings cite up to $100M).
- Emphasizes transitional / gap financing where sponsors need flexible, higher-leverage capital — Terra's programs advertise loan-to-value up to ~90%, with mezzanine LTVs generally in the 60%–85% band.
- Operates through a vertically integrated platform with in-house asset management and servicing, favoring institutional-quality assets in U.S. markets.
- This is real estate private credit, not technology/startup seed investing — a founder raising equity for a tech company is unlikely to be a fit.
Notable Investments
- Terra Capital Partners lending programs — senior bridge and mezzanine/preferred-equity originations on U.S. commercial properties; Cooperman led origination of these middle-market transactions.
- Terra Property Trust, Inc. — a Terra-affiliated real estate credit vehicle (per SEC filings) originating and acquiring CRE mortgage and mezzanine loans.
- Terra Income Fund 6, Inc. — a Terra-affiliated investment vehicle referenced in SEC filings.
- Mavik Capital Management — his more recent platform, where he originates commercial real estate credit and structured investments.
- (Specific individually named property deals are not publicly attributed to him; the above reflect the firms/vehicles and program types tied to his work.)
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