Danish Jahangir Mir

Founding Partner

Danish is the Founding Partner of CIEL. Danish comes with extensive experience in real estate M&A and capital markets - his expertise ranges from project finance to portfolio level transactions and public market exits. His responsibilities at CIEL entail creating a global footprint of solutions for real estate companies that are looking to access the global capital markets, grow through M&A or expand into new markets & geographies.

Prior to CIEL, Danish was the Chief of Staff at a private real estate and energy family office in the United States, where he served as a liaison to the management teams of portfolio companies - REITs, Business Development Companies, Opportunity Funds, and Equity Funds - across various functions,  Operations, Finance, Compliance, Internal Audits, Reporting, Investor Relations, Stakeholder Management, Change Management and Business Transformation.

Danish started his career as an Investment Banking Analyst at Securities Research Associates and Sutter Securities with a focus on companies in the TMT, healthcare, real estate, AI and ML sectors. Danish has underwritten $6B+ in transactions, helped companies secure $300M+ and achieve $1.5B+ in M&A goals.

Danish earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Statistics and Economics from University of California, Berkeley with a focus on Behavioral Finance and Financial Economics.