Strategic Value Partners appoints Mike Ungari as head of real estate

Strategic Value Partners (SVP) has appointed Mike Ungari as head of real estate to lead the firm’s global real estate business and portfolio. Ungari also will serve on the firm’s management council and investment committee.

Ungari joins SVP after 16 years at Goldman Sachs, where he held several leadership roles and  most recently was a partner managing the firm’s opportunistic and value-add real estate portfolio in the United States. While at Goldman, Ungari was involved in more than $19 billion of complex real estate transactions across equity, development, opportunistic credit and take privates across all asset types. Ungari also spent more than a decade in Goldman Sachs’ Special Situations Group, including leading the Asset Investing team, which focused on commercial real estate, consumer and transportation assets. Before Goldman Sachs, Ungari was at GE Asset Management in the Real Estate Group. He began his career with Accenture.