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Mitchell P. Kahn

Mitchell Kahn is one of the Founders and Principals of Frontline Real Estate Partners based in Northbrook, Illinois. Mitch is experienced in real estate development and deal making involving restructuring, disposition, lease renegotiation and acquisitions. Mr. Kahn is also the President of Badger Real Estate Advisors LLC and Badger Investments LLC.

Formerly, Mr. Kahn was the Founder, President and CEO of Hilco Real Estate. Under his leadership, Hilco Real Estate subleased, relocated, and renegotiated hundreds of thousands of square feet of retail, commercial and industrial space, including the disposition and restructuring of the real estate for WorldCom, Jacobson Department Stores, Homelife, Homeland Supermarkets, USOP McWhorter’s, Trak Auto, Venator, Bedroom Superstore, Payless Cashways, Wolf Camera, HQ/Hechinger, Heilig-Meyers Furniture, Filene’s Basement, Play Co, Camellia Food Centers, Ice Chalet, and Maurice, Mervyns, Bally Total Fitness, Bonus Stores, A&P, Cooker Restaurants, GameStop, Boyd’s Bears, Levitz, Kroger, Movie Gallery, Krispy Kreme, Pamida, Pep Boys, Starbucks, Whitehall Jewelers, Levitt Homes, Neumann Homes and Wextrust. He has been retained by some of the world’s largest and well-known companies.

Mr. Kahn led the acquisition strategy and dealmaking that acquired a substantial portfolio of retail and industrial assets, both sale leasebacks and empty facilities, across many markets in the United States.

Prior to joining Hilco Real Estate, Mr. Kahn was Senior Vice President of Sportmart, directing all real estate activities including site selection, national rollout strategy, deal-making and lease negotiations for all Sportmart locations; managing the disposition of all Canadian assets for Sportmart; and eventually negotiating the successful merger between Sportmart and Gart Sports. Mr. Kahn also was responsible for all legal and strategic functions at Sportmart, as well as developing, managing and leasing numerous shopping centers developed by the company and its principals.

Mr. Kahn is a CPA, as well as an attorney who has formerly practiced real estate law and developed numerous retail shopping centers. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, School of Business and Northwestern University, School of Law. Mr. Kahn’s professional memberships include the Illinois Bar Association, the International Council of Shopping Centers, the Urban Land Institute, the Turnaround Management Association and the American Bankruptcy Institute.

mkahn@frontlinerepartners.com

Joshua E. Joseph

Joshua is one of the Founders and Principals of Frontline Real Estate Partners based in Northbrook, Illinois. Prior to beginning Frontline, Josh spent over eight years with Hilco Real Estate as a Principal and Senior Vice President. During his tenure at Hilco, his primary responsibilities included spearheading Hilco’s principal acquisition and fee for service disposition disciplines, respectively. In these two roles, Josh managed a team of approximately eight dealmakers and analysts. He has spent the better part of his career participating as a principal as well as an advisor in some of the United States largest and most high profile bankruptcy cases. Prior to joining Hilco Real Estate in September 2001, Josh spent over four years with Mid-America Real Estate Corporation in Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois. While at Mid-America, he specialized in the disposition and acquisition of retail properties throughout the Midwest.

Josh has consummated real estate transactions, both acquisitions and dispositions, in almost every state within the continental United States. He has disposed of over $500,000,000 of real estate and has acquired over $100,000,000 of real estate during his career. Josh has acquired and disposed of retail (shopping centers, freestanding facilities such as restaurants, health and fitness centers, gas stations and convenience stores, and drug stores), industrial (manufacturing, distribution, and self-storage facilities), office, undeveloped land (both commercial and residential), telecommunications sites (data centers, telecommunication office centers, and antenna sites), dialysis clinics, and corporate campuses.

Josh’s clientele includes publicly traded companies, privately held corporations, private equity companies, financial institutions, retailers, court-appointed trustees and receivers, and traditional institutional and private real estate companies. His clients include companies such as, MCI/WorldCom, Jacobson’s Department Stores, Lone Star Steakhouse, Bulk Petroleum, Wextrust Capital, DSI (the third largest for profit dialysis company in the United States), Bally Total Fitness, U-Haul, The Sports Authority, Circuit City, Ritz Camera, Evenflo Corporation, Sears, Homeland Supermarkets, Cabela’s, Camping World, Centre Partners, ASB Real Estate Investments, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, US Foodservice, Trak Auto Corporation, Lakewood Engineering, The Archon Group, Dearborn Development Allegis Investors The Cloverleaf Group, Travelers Insurance, Learsi, Inc., Prime Group Realty Trust, Mid-Northern Equities, Pine Tree Commercial, Marlin Properties, Gatto Industries, Federal Realty Investment Trust, Credit Agricole Indo-Suez, GE Capital, GE Investments, RREEF, SPP Investments, Simon Property Group, and Ramco-Gershenson.

Josh is a graduate of the University of Illinois with a Bachelors Degree in English and French Literature. He is a licensed Real Estate Broker in the State of Illinois as well as a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers. He resides in Buffalo Grove with his wife and two daughters.

jjoseph@frontlinerepartners.com

Matthew S. Darin

Matthew Darin is one of the Founders and Principals of Frontline Real Estate Partners based in Northbrook, Illinois. Prior to beginning Frontline, Matt was a Vice President with Hilco Real Estate and was with the company for four years. Matt co-led the company’s principal acquisitions business over the past four years, acquiring in excess of $100 million of transactions in the retail, industrial, office, medical office, and land sectors. Matt was responsible for sourcing and executing acquisition opportunities, deal making, financial analysis and underwriting, property valuation, market due diligence, and identification of financing alternatives. Matt has expertise in the acquisition and disposition of real estate assets both inside and outside of bankruptcy situations. Matt has acquired a broad spectrum of commercial properties across the United States including sale-leaseback acquisitions, value-added acquisitions of vacant properties, and leasehold interests.

In addition to his role in Hilco’s principal acquisitions business, Matt was one of the key members of the company’s real estate disposition and consulting business. Matt has personally sold retail, industrial, office, medical, land, and other commercial real estate properties. Since the beginning of 2009, Matt has been personally responsible for the sale of over $25 million of properties including Class A office buildings, medical facilities, industrial buildings, and retail properties. Matt has sold properties on behalf of financial institutions, private equity firms, retailers, and real estate companies. Current assignments include the disposition of a portfolio of 120 gas station / convenience store properties in seven Midwestern states on behalf of a Chapter 11 debtor.

Prior to joining Hilco Real Estate, Matt worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in the Assurance & Business Advisory Services practice focusing on real estate and financial services clients. He holds a Bachelor of Science with honors in Accounting and a Bachelor of Science with honors in Business Administration – Management Information Systems from the University of lllinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is a Certified Public Accountant and a licensed Real Estate Salesperson in the State of Illinois. Matt is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) and the Real Estate Investment Association (REIA.).

mdarin@frontlinerepartners.com