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Steve Orbuch

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  • Founder and President, Sculptor Real Estate
  • Executive Managing Director
  • Partner Management Committee

Steve Orbuch

Steve Orbuch is the Founder and President of Sculptor Real Estate at Sculptor Capital. He is also an Executive Managing Director and a member of the Firm's Partner Management Committee. In this role, Mr. Orbuch oversees the Firm’s global real estate activities and dedicated team, including acquisitions, asset management and dispositions, investing across the capital structure spectrum in both opportunistic equity and credit strategies.

Prior to forming Sculptor Real Estate in 2003, Mr. Orbuch was a Managing Director with Blackstone Real Estate Advisors (“Blackstone”) where he participated in the sourcing, acquisition and financing of over $2 billion of commercial properties across multiple product types and geographic locations. Prior to joining Blackstone in 1995, Mr. Orbuch was an Associate in the Real Estate Department at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Prior to joining Goldman, Sachs & Co., Mr. Orbuch was an attorney at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, where he specialized in corporate and partnership taxation.

Mr. Orbuch graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania and received his Juris Doctor from Columbia University, where he was a Stone Scholar.