Lone Star Funds, a private equity firm that advises global funds on investments including real estate, has promoted Donald Quintin to lead the company as its new CEO and global president.
Quintin began his tenure with Lone Star in 2010 and has served in multiple leadership roles, including president of the firm's Europe operations with oversight over origination activities in the region. He has more than three decades of experience in financial markets, such as corporate and real estate investing, as well as portfolio management.
Most recently, Quintin was president of opportunity funds and oversaw the origination and operations of the firm's Opportunity Fund and the Residential Mortgage Fund strategies. He also is a member of Lone Star's senior management committee.
Quintin declined an interview request from CoStar News.
Before joining Lone Star, Quintin was a managing director at Merrill Lynch, where he managed distressed structured trading and mortgage trading, among other businesses. He also oversaw the ML Bank investment portfolio and various other legacy portfolios.
He began his career at Bankers Trust before he joined Salomon Brothers, where he served as a fixed-income trader and senior manager within the mortgage and corporate divisions.
Lone Star, which is headquartered in Dallas, established its first fund in 1995. Since that time, the global firm that invests in real estate, corporate equity, credit and other financial assets has organized 23 private equity funds with aggregate capital commitments totaling about $87 billion. The firm organizes its funds in three series: a commercial real estate fund series, an opportunity fund series and a U.S. residential mortgage fund series.