About Intellex Capital

Amir Kornblum is a Partner at Sheppe LLP, a leading corporate law firm in New York City. He has over 30 years of experience as a real estate attorney, investment banker, and owner/operator. He has worked on more than $16 billion in transactions—ranging from conduit and securitized loans to preferred equity, B-notes, and complex workouts.

As a lawyer, Amir advised institutional clients at major law firms, focusing on CMBS structures and large-scale financings. He later joined Citigroup Global Markets as Director in the Commercial Mortgage Finance Large Loan Group, where he managed origination, syndication, and capital markets execution. Amir also served as a senior executive overseeing Solow Realty’s New York office and residential portfolio, handling development, leasing, finance, and operations. Before joining the Solow Corporation, Amir was a Director in the Commercial Mortgage Finance Large Loan Group at Citigroup.

Since 2018 he has served as an adjunct professor at NYU’s Schack Institute of Real Estate, where he teaches Legal Principles and Practices.

He holds a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law and a B.A. from Columbia College, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude.

Brian Skurnik is President and Founder of Midwood Capital Partners, a leading boutique advisory firm focused on commercial real estate.

With over 35 years of commercial real estate lending and management experience, Brian has worked in structuring, underwriting, credit/risk management, asset/portfolio management, note and property acquisitions and dispositions, loan syndications and CLO/CMBS securitizations. Brian previously worked for Pacific Western Bank for over 13 years where he was a Managing Director and Head of Commercial Real Estate. As head of the group, he was responsible for managing the teams that originate, underwrite and service real estate bridge loans to ensure overall consistency in sourcing, structuring and pricing new business, as well as compliance with underwriting, portfolio management and credit guidelines. Furthermore, he has extensive experience in real estate debt, mezzanine and equity products as well as securitizations.

Prior to joining Pacific Western Bank, Brian worked at Barclays Capital in loan originations, and played a key role as one of the early members of the group in building the lending platform and infrastructure. Before Barclays he held positions at investment banking firms where he was primarily responsible for originating fixed rate and floating rate loans with a capital markets orientation. Brian also spent 7 years at Heller Financial where he initially worked as a lending officer in the asset-based and specialty lending group before transferring to the real estate division. At Heller, he had various underwriting and asset management responsibilities across a diverse array of financing products including senior and mezzanine debt, and preferred equity for all asset types.

Brian is a graduate of Brooklyn College receiving a degree in Business, Management & Finance. He is affiliated with real estate organizations including ULI, ICSC, RELA, CrefC and MBA as well as NYU Schack School of Real Estate where he was an adjunct professor.