John Richards serves as a Managing Director and has over 30 years of commercial real estate experience. Mr. Richards is an expert in arranging senior debt, mezzanine debt and joint venture equity for a wide variety of income producing properties including multi-family apartments, commercial office, retail, industrial and other properties.
Prior to joining Berkadia, he ran the Debt & Structured Finance group for CBRE of Virginia. He began his career in the Washington DC area at Bank of America predecessor, Sovran Bank, with responsibilities ranging from loan origination to the management, work out and restructuring of the Bank’s troubled asset portfolio.






