Cantor Fitzgerald

Jonathan Falik

Jonathan Falik is a Managing Director at Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. in the Gaming, Lodging and Leisure Group. He joined the firm in August 2011.

Jonathan Falik has over 17 years of experience in the real estate and lodging sector. He has worked on numerous completed M&A and financing transactions involving well over 1,000 hotels and over $20 billion of transaction value.  He has been actively involved with mergers and acquisitions of public and private companies, portfolio sales and single asset sales, equity financings, high yield financings and mortgage financings.

Prior to joining Cantor Fitzgerald, Mr. Falik was the founder and CEO of JF Capital Advisors, a lodging advisory and principal investment firm. Additionally, Mr. Falik was the CEO of Eagle Hospitality Trust, a 13 hotel private REIT. Prior to founding JF Capital in 2004, Mr. Falik was an investment banker at Bear Stearns in the Gaming, Lodging and Leisure Group. Mr. Falik began his career as a C.P.A. for Price Waterhouse, concentrating on due diligence and auditing services for real estate opportunity funds and real estate investment partnerships.

Mr. Falik received a BA in economics with high honors from Rutgers College and an MBA from Columbia Business School with a concentration in Real Estate Finance. Mr. Falik has been an adjunct professor at NYU’s Real Estate Institute and is an active lecturer and panelist at industry events.