Justin Preftakes

Managing Director - Head of US Construction Lending
Barings

Justin Preftakes is a member of Barings Real Estate, a global real estate platform with extensive capabilities across both debt and equity strategies. Justin heads Barings’ construction lending platform. Justin’s team works with portfolio management, debt origination, credit and underwriting and asset management to originate, structure, close and service construction whole loans, mezzanine development loans and construction-to-permanent loans.

Justin joined the firm in 2006 and his experience has encompassed high yield lending, mezzanine and preferred equity originations, analysis of tax credit investments, equity asset management of real estate owned properties as well as various capital markets duties including analysis of investments in subordinated CMBS, unsecured REIT debt and private real estate funds. Justin holds a B.A. in English from Plymouth State University and an M.B.A. from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts.