Partners Real Estate (“Partners”), a private partnership-led, fully-integrated commercial real estate firm, announced today that Lisel Morris has joined Partners Finance—the firm’s registered broker dealer and FINRA / SIPC member—as Managing Director, Southeast, based in Atlanta. Upon completion of applicable licensing and registration requirements, Ms. Morris is expected to support capital-raising and investor relationship activities with private clients and family offices in Atlanta and across the Southeast.

“Lisel is a valuable addition to our firm—she brings experience raising capital directly from high- net-worth investors and family offices,” said John O’Neill, President and Managing Partner of Partners’ Southeast region. “Lisel’s ability to build principal-to-principal relationships makes her well-suited to support Partners Finance’s growth in Atlanta and across the Southeast.” Ms. Morris has more than 15 years of experience in commercial real estate and capital markets.

As Director of Investor Relations at The Allen Morris Company in Miami, she built the firm’s capital markets division to capitalize a $1.2 billion development pipeline, personally originating $50 million in equity from family offices and high-net-worth investors and securing more than $160 million in institutional debt, with fundraising roadshows across the U.S., Europe, the U.K. and Latin America.

Ms. Morris joins Partners Finance as Partners’ investment and development platform—which includes Partners Capital, Partners Development, and Partners Finance—continues to scale.

When Partners Capital launched its first Opportunity Fund in 2014, the fund invested roughly $6.5 million in equity; today, Opportunity Fund VI is targeting a $250 million raise. Over that span, the company’s investment and development platform has raised more than $400 million in equity, sponsored nine investment funds across opportunity, hospitality and land strategies, and completed more than $1.5 billion in transactions. Today it has a GAV of approximately $1 billion, and a portfolio and pipeline of more than 4.5 million sq. ft. across key markets in Texas and the Southeast, and recently launched Land Fund II, a $25 million vehicle that acquires and entitles industrial land across high-growth Texas and Sun Belt corridors.

Partners Development accounts for more than $400 million in development volume; and Partners Finance gives qualified investors, family offices, and institutions direct access to Partners Capital’s and Partners Development’s opportunities.

Ms. Morris has also served as Director of Design Development and Branding and as a board member at AMS Hospitality in Atlanta, where she raised debt and equity for firm-sponsored developments, and in 2024, co-founded Meter Haus, a development and hospitality advisory firm. She began her career as an analyst at Equity International in Chicago, where she helped write the private placement memorandum for the firm’s $650 million Fund VI. She holds an MBA in real estate finance and development from the University of Colorado Boulder and a bachelor’s degree from Southern Methodist University.

“Partners is vertically integrated, so investors can learn about opportunities directly from the people who develop, lease and manage the real estate. Family offices and high-net-worth clients value transparency and a direct relationship with the operator, and Partners seeks to provide both,” said Ms. Morris. “I’m excited to join the team and build relationships with investors in Atlanta and across the Southeast.”

Ms. Morris’s hire expands Partners Finance’s presence in the Southeast and further underscores the rapid build-out of the services and investment opportunities Partners offers clients in Atlanta and across the region. It follows the spring additions of Charlie Johnson, who launched the firm’s new Federal Leasing practice, and Stewart Yates, who leads its new Healthcare Investment Sales practice, as well as the summer acquisition of Crown Tenant Advisors, which added Healthcare Services brokerage capabilities to the firm.

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