Susan Lipe

Susan Lipe has been active in Chicago’s real estate finance community since the mid 1990’s originally with the Bank of Montreal. She joined Cohen Financial’s real estate investment bank in Chicago in 1998 and participated in the integration of Cohen’s acquisition of San Francisco-based E.S. Merriman and Sons as well as closing over $1 billion in real estate debt and equity transactions. Ms. Lipe returned to Chicago in 2001 as Director of Real Estate for Divine InterVentures and then joined Chicago-based investment bank Incapital as Managing Director of Capital Markets. She returned to traditional real estate lending in 2005 with LaSalle Bank as Senior Vice President Division Head in commercial real estate.