Francis Lively is Chief Executive Officer and President of The LCP Group, L.P. (LCP), a New York–based private real estate investment manager with approximately $1 billion in assets under management. He is responsible for executing the firm’s investment strategies and oversees all aspects of business development, operations, and portfolio management across its platform, which spans hospitality, golf, early-education, and net-lease. He also leads capital formation and programmatic partnerships with top-tier institutional investors across its equity and credit strategies, and oversees the EB-5 platform, which has raised more than $550 million across 18 projects to finance job-creating U.S. development.
Prior to joining LCP, Mr. Lively served as Vice President and Counsel at Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW), where he led the restructuring and partial disposition of a $5 billion commercial real estate loan portfolio and structured approximately $1 billion of new loan originations. Before LBBW, he practiced law at Shearman & Sterling LLP, advising on complex commercial real estate transactions. Over the course of his career, he has been involved with structuring the financing of several marquee properties, including Chelsea Market; The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas; the John Hancock Center (Chicago); 230 Park Avenue (New York); Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago; and Trump International Hotel Las Vegas. In total, Mr. Lively has led negotiations for sales, financings, and restructurings exceeding $10 billion on behalf of some of the largest and most active investors and lenders in U.S. commercial real estate.
Mr. Lively serves on the Advisory Board of Yale’s International Center for Finance (ICF), previously chaired the Yale Real Estate Conference, and is an alumni class representative at the Yale School of Management. He also sits on the Board of Trustees of Fordham Preparatory School and founded LCP’s student sponsorship program at Cristo Rey High School in New York City.
He holds a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law, an M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management, and a B.A. from Georgetown University.