Key Takeaways
- • SEDA Experts LLC, an expert witness firm specializing in financial services, announced on Oct. 26, 2026 that Peter Ahl has joined as Managing Director, strengthening its Alternative Asset Classes & Investments practice.
- • Ahl brings nearly four decades of experience in distressed investing, private credit, restructuring and risk management, focused on commercial real estate (CRE).
- • Ahl previously helped build H/2 Capital Partners into a multi-billion dollar CRE opportunistic credit platform, where he led underwriting and risk management and chaired the Risk Management Committee.
- • Ahl's prior roles include Partner and Executive Vice President at Northstar Capital Partners and Partner in AEW Capital Management's opportunistic equity vertical.
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. The appointment expands the firm's Alternative Asset Classes & Investments practice. According to SEDA Managing Partner Damiano Colnago, Ahl's combination of distressed investing, private credit, restructuring and risk management expertise will enhance the firm's capabilities in high-stakes financial, valuation and restructuring matters.
Ahl's career spans nearly four decades and three major CRE investment cycles. At H/2 Capital Partners, where he served as Senior Partner and led risk management and underwriting through the global financial crisis, he helped build the firm into a multi-billion dollar CRE opportunistic credit investment platform. He sat on the Executive and Investment Committees, chaired the Risk Management Committee, and took part in fund formation, investment 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.
Earlier, Ahl was a Partner and Executive Vice President at Northstar Capital Partners, a private equity firm, and a Partner in AEW Capital Management's opportunistic equity investment vertical. Notable transactions cited in the announcement 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 total face value exceeding $330 million, and a growth equity control investment in the largest commercial real estate developer in the western US at the time.
Ahl currently advises institutional-scale real estate investors, including private investment platforms, family offices and high net worth LPs, on investment feasibility, restructuring, risk management and governance. The announcement also notes that he advised on the recapitalization of a secured, fund-level financing for a private equity platform totaling several hundred million dollars. He has served on various corporate boards and is a recurring guest lecturer at Middlebury College, from which he holds a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Ahl's career spans nearly four decades and three major CRE investment cycles. At H/2 Capital Partners, where he served as Senior Partner and led risk management and underwriting through the global financial crisis, he helped build the firm into a multi-billion dollar CRE opportunistic credit investment platform. He sat on the Executive and Investment Committees, chaired the Risk Management Committee, and took part in fund formation, investment 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.
Earlier, Ahl was a Partner and Executive Vice President at Northstar Capital Partners, a private equity firm, and a Partner in AEW Capital Management's opportunistic equity investment vertical. Notable transactions cited in the announcement 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 total face value exceeding $330 million, and a growth equity control investment in the largest commercial real estate developer in the western US at the time.
Ahl currently advises institutional-scale real estate investors, including private investment platforms, family offices and high net worth LPs, on investment feasibility, restructuring, risk management and governance. The announcement also notes that he advised on the recapitalization of a secured, fund-level financing for a private equity platform totaling several hundred million dollars. He has served on various corporate boards and is a recurring guest lecturer at Middlebury College, from which he holds a Bachelor of Arts degree.
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