$25 Billion+ in Combined CRE Debt & Equity Structured Finance Experience
$25+ Billion in Combined CRE Debt & Equity Experience
Finneo’s team brings deep institutional expertise across multifamily, industrial, hospitality, and development asset classes. With over $25 billion in structured finance experience, we specialize in creating tailored capital stacks that maximize value and manage risk. Our professionals combine strategic advisory with precise execution—leveraging strong lender and equity relationships across global capital markets to deliver optimal outcomes for every client and transaction.
Navigating Capital Markets with Expertise
Amar Nijjar
Founder & CEO
Amar Nijjar is a seasoned real estate capital markets executive with over $20 billion in closed debt and equity transactions across North America. Over his two-decade career, Amar has built deep expertise in structuring complex capital stacks and executing across all major asset classes, including multifamily, industrial, hospitality, mixed-use, and development land.
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He spent more than 10 years at major North American banks, including BMO, RBC, and CIBC, where he originated, underwrote, and managed large-scale commercial real estate financings for institutional clients. He later served as Executive Vice President and Practice Lead for JLL’s Debt Capital Markets group, leading origination and execution teams on multi-billion-dollar mandates across Canada and the United States.
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Amar has advised and arranged capital for some of the largest REITs, developers, and family offices across North America, leveraging long-standing relationships with banks, life companies, CMBS lenders, debt funds, and institutional and private credit investors. His expertise spans the full capital stack—senior, subordinate, and mezzanine debt, as well as JV equity—and he is recognized for his analytical precision, creativity in structuring, and ability to deliver execution certainty in dynamic market conditions.
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As Founder & CEO of Finneo, Amar has built a data- and technology-enabled capital advisory platform that integrates institutional-grade underwriting, proprietary lender intelligence, and AI-driven automation. Finneo empowers owners, developers, and investors to access optimized capital solutions with transparency, precision, and speed.
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Beyond his professional accomplishments, Amar is deeply committed to giving back and advancing the industry. He supports an orphanage in Peru through his Educate Kids initiative, which focuses on improving education and living conditions for underprivileged children, and is a founding member of the Canadian CRE Lenders Association (CRELA), dedicated to strengthening collaboration and standards within Canada’s commercial real estate finance sector.
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