Meridian Capital Group Promotes Mandel to General Counsel

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Meridian Capital Group, one of the nation’s leading commercial real estate finance, investment sales, and retail leasing advisors, announced today that Moshe Mandel, its longtime head of legal, has been promoted to General Counsel effective immediately.

“Moshe Mandel is a strategic legal thinker and a trusted adviser to me and to the Meridian board,” said Brian Brooks, Meridian’s chairman and CEO. “He has been instrumental in helping craft the company’s loan review, risk management, and compliance environment that helped Meridian re-enter the agency lending market and successfully navigate the business through a challenging period.”

Mr. Mandel is a graduate of Harvard Law School and a member of the New York State Bar. Prior to joining Meridian in 2021 as its lead in-house counsel, Mr. Mandel was a Counsel at O’Melveny & Myers LLP, where he served as a commercial litigator for almost 10 years. Over the course of his career, Mr. Mandel has represented a wide variety of clients in federal and state court proceedings, arbitrations, and regulatory and internal investigations, and advised clients in disputes ranging from complex commercial litigation to mortgage servicing, bankruptcy, and labor matters.

Meridian has arranged more than $550 billion in commercial real estate financing for more than 11,000 customers since its founding. The company has repeatedly been the number one commercial mortgage broker by transaction count and a top five broker by dollar volume. Meridian re-entered the Freddie Mac market effective January 1, 2025 and the Fannie Mae market effective April 11, 2025.

About Meridian Capital Group

Founded in 1991, Meridian Capital Group is one of the nation’s leading commercial real estate finance, investment sales and retail leasing advisors. In 2023, Meridian closed over $27.4 billion in financing in 43 states across 269 unique lenders. Meridian represents many of the world’s leading real estate investors and developers and the company’s expansive platform has specialized practices for a broad array of property types including office, retail, multifamily, hotel, mixed-use, industrial, and healthcare and senior housing properties. Meridian is headquartered in New York City with offices in New Jersey, Maryland, Illinois, Ohio, Florida, and California. Learn more at www.meridiancapital.com.