Michael A. Solomon
Advisor
Mr. Solomon is currently a Director at the Merrill Lynch Community Development Company, where he leads the Equity and Structured Finance businesses of the Company and co-manages the Real Estate business. Since February 2001 he has focused on structuring and making loans and equity investments in the affordable housing, small business and economic development arenas. For nearly a year prior to his work at Merrill Lynch, Mr. Solomon was a Vice President at the JP Morgan Community Development Corporation, where he worked on various transactions in community and economic development.
Prior to his work in community development, Mr. Solomon was for twelve years Counsel to Debevoise & Plimpton, a major New York City international law firm, where he practiced real estate (including finance, acquisition and development, M&A, private equity, bankruptcy and workouts), corporate and community development law, and Luskin, Stern & Eisler LLP, a boutique law firm in New York City specializing in bankruptcy, real estate and corporate finance.
Prior to practicing law Mr. Solomon was law clerk to the Honorable Edward R. Korman, Chief Judge, United States District Court, Eastern District of New York.
Mr. Solomon obtained his law degree in honors from Brooklyn Law School in 1987, a Master of Arts in Political Science with honors from the Nelson A. Rockefeller Graduate School of Public Affairs (State University of New York) in 1984 and a Bachelor of Arts from the State University of New York at Albany in 1982.
Mr. Solomon was for ten years the New York Reporter for the American Bar Association’s Journal on Current Developments in Real Estate Law.