As Executive Managing Director of Cushman & Wakefield, Frank P. Liantonio oversees business development, consulting, and brokerage at the firm’s NY office. Since joining Cushman & Wakefield in 1981, Mr. Liantonio has held several key leadership positions, including co-head of the firm’s Valuation & Advisory practice and head of its Strategic Advisory Services practice. In 2005, he co-led the firm’s restructuring effort known as the G7 Initiative, and in 2006, was appointed head of U.S. Capital Transaction Services, providing leadership to two of the firms major Groups: Investment Sales, Corporate Finance & Investment Banking and Equity, Debt & Structured Finance. In 2015, he was awarded the Real Estate Board of New York’s Most Ingenious Retail Deal of the Year Award.

As co-founder of the GCREPF, Mr. Liantonio leverages his leadership skills to champion philanthropic causes. He has made significant contributions to the American Cancer Society’s Eastern Division, having served on its Board for six years. Currently, he serves as Vice Chairman of the Board for Tomorrow’s Hope Foundation and sits on the Board of Regents at NYU Winthrop University Hospital.

Lauren Scarantino is a partner in the Real Estate Group of the New York office of Alston & Bird LLP, an Atlanta law firm. Lauren graduated with honors from Georgetown University in 2002 and received a law degree, magna cum laude, from the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University in 2007.

Lauren focuses her practice on commercial real estate finance. She represents institutional investors, life insurance companies, commercial banks, investment banks, debt funds, and opportunity funds in a variety of complex single and multi-asset financings of commercial real estate lending transactions. These financings include permanent loans, bridge loans, mezzanine loans, mortgage loans for commercial mortgage-backed securitization (CBMS) programs, loan participations, loan assumptions, and sales and loan modifications, including loan pledges to warehouse facilities, and are secured by various types of real estate, including hotels, office and retail properties, shopping centers, multi-family residential properties, and vacant land.

Lauren was born and raised in raised in Garden City and, along with her three children, currently resides there as well.  She has strong ties to the Garden City community and is committed to supporting and promoting philanthropic causes to benefit the Garden City community.

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