Key Takeaways
- • SEDA Experts LLC, an expert witness firm specializing in financial services, announced on October 26, 2026 that Peter Ahl has joined as Managing Director.
- • Ahl brings nearly four decades of commercial real estate experience in distressed investing, private credit, restructuring, and risk management, according to SEDA Managing Partner Damiano Colnago.
- • Ahl previously served as Senior Partner and Risk Management and Underwriting lead at H/2 Capital Partners, where he helped build a multi-billion dollar CRE opportunistic credit platform.
- • His prior roles include Partner and Executive Vice President at Northstar Capital Partners and Partner in AEW Capital Management's opportunistic equity vertical.
- • The hire expands SEDA's alternative asset classes and investments practice for financial, valuation, and restructuring matters.
Summary
SEDA Experts LLC, a New York-based expert witness firm providing financial expert witness services, announced on October 26, 2026 that Peter Ahl has joined the firm as Managing Director. According to the release, the appointment strengthens SEDA's alternative asset classes and investments practice. SEDA Managing Partner Damiano Colnago said Ahl's combination of distressed investing, private credit, restructuring, and risk management expertise, developed over nearly four decades in commercial real estate markets, significantly enhances the firm's capabilities in high-stakes financial, valuation, and restructuring matters.
Ahl has deep experience investing institutional capital in commercial real estate, focusing on distressed and special situation transactions across structured and private credit markets as well as opportunistic equity programs. He spent several years at H/2 Capital Partners, where he served as Senior Partner and led underwriting and risk management. He joined the firm after inception, helped build it into a multi-billion dollar CRE opportunistic credit investment platform, chaired its Risk Management Committee, and took part in fund formation, strategy, and LP investor relations. At H/2, he also helped create Strategic Asset Services LLC, a rated special servicer that manages stressed or distressed CRE loans for bondholders and investors.
Before H/2, Ahl was a Partner and Executive Vice President at Northstar Capital Partners and a Partner in AEW Capital Management's opportunistic equity vertical. Notable transactions cited in the release include the recapitalization of a mid-market publicly traded office REIT, the acquisition and liquidation of a pool of non-performing mortgage loans and real estate-owned assets from a large US bank with a face value exceeding $330 million, and a growth equity control investment in a major western US commercial real estate developer. The release also says he advised on the recapitalization of secured fund-level financing for a private equity platform totaling several hundred million dollars. Ahl's property-level expertise spans office, hospitality, retail, industrial, multifamily, mixed use, land, and healthcare assets. He began his career at First National Bank of Boston and holds a Bachelor of Arts from Middlebury College, where he is a recurring guest lecturer. He has also served on various corporate boards.
The release positions Ahl's advisory work for institutional real estate investors, family offices, and high net worth LPs on investment feasibility, restructuring, risk management, and governance as a complement to SEDA's expert witness services for law firms, regulators, and financial institutions.
Ahl has deep experience investing institutional capital in commercial real estate, focusing on distressed and special situation transactions across structured and private credit markets as well as opportunistic equity programs. He spent several years at H/2 Capital Partners, where he served as Senior Partner and led underwriting and risk management. He joined the firm after inception, helped build it into a multi-billion dollar CRE opportunistic credit investment platform, chaired its Risk Management Committee, and took part in fund formation, strategy, and LP investor relations. At H/2, he also helped create Strategic Asset Services LLC, a rated special servicer that manages stressed or distressed CRE loans for bondholders and investors.
Before H/2, Ahl was a Partner and Executive Vice President at Northstar Capital Partners and a Partner in AEW Capital Management's opportunistic equity vertical. Notable transactions cited in the release include the recapitalization of a mid-market publicly traded office REIT, the acquisition and liquidation of a pool of non-performing mortgage loans and real estate-owned assets from a large US bank with a face value exceeding $330 million, and a growth equity control investment in a major western US commercial real estate developer. The release also says he advised on the recapitalization of secured fund-level financing for a private equity platform totaling several hundred million dollars. Ahl's property-level expertise spans office, hospitality, retail, industrial, multifamily, mixed use, land, and healthcare assets. He began his career at First National Bank of Boston and holds a Bachelor of Arts from Middlebury College, where he is a recurring guest lecturer. He has also served on various corporate boards.
The release positions Ahl's advisory work for institutional real estate investors, family offices, and high net worth LPs on investment feasibility, restructuring, risk management, and governance as a complement to SEDA's expert witness services for law firms, regulators, and financial institutions.
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