Alina Mardesich

Managing Director - Real Estate Advisory

Hilco Corporate Finance

About Alina

Alina Mardesich is Managing Director at Hilco Corporate Finance. Alina joined Hilco Corporate Finance to provide CRE advisory services, including underwriting/valuation and developing financing strategies within HCF and other Hilco Global verticals, emphasizing raising capital (debt/equity). For performing or non-distressed asset mandates, Alina works with developers and investors on execution strategies including raising capital to acquire, develop, reposition and stabilize. Her career focus has been and continues to be on properties in transition i.e., land, development, construction, adaptive re-use, value-add in all asset classes both within and outside the US. Notable projects/accolades include $250MM+ in loans for the conversion of industrial warehouses to residential lofts in the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District, $400MM+ in backbone infrastructure loans for various master-planned communities in California, zero loss track record on over $1.5B of loans funded.

Before joining Hilco Corporate Finance, Alina spent 17 years as a construction lender with Oaktree Capital Management (current cycle) and Fremont Investment & Loan (previous cycle). She began her career at Arthur Anderson & Co. as a staff underwriter. Alina then moved on to the JE Robert Companies (a Goldman Whitehall Fund) as a portfolio analyst. During the Global Financial Crisis, she handled loan workouts at US Bank and managed a $350MM portfolio of non-performing loans.

Speaking Engagements

American Bar Association, Business Law Spring Meeting, 2025: Panelist, When Will the Real Estate Insolvency Tsunami Arrive, or is it Already Here? Restructuring and Insolvency in Today’s Commercial Real Estate
American Bankruptcy Institute, Distressed Real Estate Symposium, 2025: Panelist, Guarantees

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