CIM Group

a diversified investment platform – with offerings across the alternative asset classes including real estate, infrastructure, and credit. CIM is a real estate and infrastructure owner, operator, lender and developer that has delivered more than $60bn of projects for communities across the Americas. In 2024, the group forged a partnership with Round Hill Capital to create a $2.1bn investment platform that will manage a portfolio of residential assets in the US and select countries in Europe. CIM Group – the lowdown CIM was founded in 1994 by Israeli immigrants to the US – Shaul Kuba, Richard Ressler and Avi Shemesh. It is headquartered in Los Angeles and has more than 1,000 employees across seven offices in the US, as well as in Tokyo and London. Involved in infrastructure as well as real estate, the company manages both private and publicly traded funds across opportunistic, value-add and core strategies, and is also involved in major development projects. CIM also has a credit platform which manages around $10.5bn of investments through bridge loans, mortgages, redevelopment and repositioning loans, as well as construction loans. Its European activity has so far been relatively minimal, although it bought business and video game production hub Cathedral Square in Guildford for £61.5m in 2021. Its lending business also came to Europe in March last year, focusing on whole loans and core mezzanine loans. | IDEA: PBSA partner in Europe following capital raising in Europe | PERE 200 2024 Rank #53 | PERE 100 2023 Rank #52 | 5yr fundraising $4,136m