AION Partners acts as principal and sponsor of opportunistic real estate investments across the United States. The firm was founded by the principals who built the real estate investment and asset management company DCD America. The AION team has a proven track record of creating value and managing risk through redeveloping, repositioning and managing assets in order to maximize returns to its investors. The AION executive team’s experience as real estate operators with the ability to structure and execute complex capital markets transactions, provides a competitive edge which allows the company to take advantage of pricing dislocations on hard assets and debt. Led by Siraj Dadabhoy and Michael Betancourt, AION’s executive team has extensive experience in property acquisition and management, development, capital raising, debt restructuring and foreclosure. For more than a decade, the AION team has structured private partnerships, joint ventured with private equity funds, insurance companies and family offices to purchase and operate 1.5 million square feet of office space, over 9,491 residential units and dozens of retail properties. The assets are located across the United States with a focus on the New York to Washington D.C. corridor. AION has acquired properties through purchase of fee interests, recapitalizations and purchase of distressed debt as a means to control the real estate.