Adam Cohen
Adam Cohen serves as Managing Partner for each of our partnerships. Adam had a distinguished career on Wall Street where he most recently ran Deutsche Bank’s Securitized Products Group before retiring in 2010. Under his stewardship, the group produced more than $1 billion of annual revenue and at one time had 140 members and more than $50 billion of financing commitments to a wide range of customers including Ford, GM, MBNA, Capital One, and Caterpillar.
Since 2010, Adam has focused his time on multifamily as President of Spyglass Capital Partners. He has underwritten more than 5,000 properties since that time. He controls the largest shareholdings in each partnership and is a Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae approved sponsor in good standing. Adam holds an MBA from Columbia University.
Steven Farkas
Steven Farkas joined Spyglass Capital Partners in 2024 as a Partner and Head of Acquisitions. Additionally, Steven acts as a Senior Advisor to LFF Industrial, formerly known as Anchor Capital Partners, a real estate firm Steven co-founded focused on industrial acquisitions, where he oversaw investment strategy including financial analysis, the structuring of debt and equity, and investor relations. Prior, Steven was an Associate at Tavros Capital, a New York City real estate investment and development firm, where he specialized in acquisitions, capital markets and asset management across residential, office, and mixed-use assets. At Tavros, Steven played an integral role in over $1.8 billion worth of development and value-add transactions. Steven began his career as an Investment Banking Analyst at Shelter Rock Capital Group focused on private real estate funds. Steven holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from Vanderbilt University.
Sebastien Obas
Sebastien Obas joined Spyglass Capital Partners in 2015 as Asset Manager with over 13 years of experience in multifamily real estate operations management. Sebastien is currently tasked with formulating strategic initiatives for due diligence on acquisition of new assets, value optimization of current assets and oversight of third-party management of our portfolio. Prior to joining Spyglass, Sebastien served as a Financial Analyst for Greystar Real Estate Partners, Atlanta regional office. Sebastien holds an MBA in Business Management from Strayer University and is an academic member of the Georgia Institute of Real Estate Management.
Other Partners
The Principals of Spyglass have an extensive network of relationships with property managers, brokers and owners. Spyglass has informal partnership agreements with other leading ownership groups which help Spyglass source off-market deal flow and to improve deal sourcing generally.