Professionals

Our team of real estate professionals brings years of experience in the commercial property sector.

Stephen P. Lawrence

President, Investment Capital Partners, Ltd.

• Stephen P. Lawrence has invested and operated in real estate and finance for over forty years. He is the founder and President of Investment Capital Partners, Ltd., an investment banking and development firm specializing in commercial real estate.

• Steve graduated from Yale University in 1965 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He then served in the United States Marine Corps as an aviator, earning the rank of Captain before departing the Corps in 1970. Steve then earned an MBA in accounting and finance from the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania in 1971.

• In 1972, Steve joined The Giegerich Company of Westport, Connecticut, a prominent mortgage banking and real estate development firm, where he served as a Vice President and Director.

• In 1975, Steve joined the investment banking firm of Goldman Sachs & Company as a Vice President to establish and manage property sales and equity financing within the real estate division. He worked towards establishing Goldman Sachs as a major institutional player in the corporate sale/leaseback business.

• In 1978, Steve founded Investment Capital Partners’ predecessor, Investment Capital Associates, which sponsored limited partnerships or invested individually in over $900 million of property transactions, which included corporate sale leasebacks, multi-tenanted office buildings, residential projects, hotels, industrial and retail facilities. The tax-advantaged properties included the following: a 550,000 square foot research facility located in Fort Worth, Texas, which was leased to Lockheed Corporation and General Dynamics Corporations; The 1,200,000 square foot First City Center, a multi-tenanted office building located in Dallas, Texas; a $60,000,000 sale and leaseback to the St. Regis Paper Company; a $25,000,000 multi-tenanted office building located at 545 Madison Avenue, New York, New York; a $105,000,000 office and manufacturing facility sales and leaseback for Corning Glass; a $90,000,000 investment in the Charles Square Hotel property, consisting of hotel, office and retail property in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

• In 1992, Steve formed Investment Capital Partners, Ltd. (“ICP”) to succeed ICA and other affiliates. ICP serves as a principal in real estate investment and provides asset management services.

• Steve, through ICP and other affiliates, has invested in retail, single- and multi-tenanted office, medical, flex, industrial and warehouse buildings throughout the Northeast, but with a particular focus on Connecticut. The properties presently owned and managed by ICP can be found on the website, while properties which have been sold over the last several years include: the Riverside Building, a 41,762 SF, a four-story office building located on Riverside Avenue, just south of the corner of U.S. Route 1 (the Post Road) and Route 33 in downtown Westport, Connecticut; Westport View Corporate Center, a 80,264 SF office complex consisting of two multi-story buildings located at the corner of U.S. Route 1 (the Post Road) and Route 33 in downtown Westport, Connecticut; 639 Research Parkway, a 37,664 SF, three-story office building situated on approximately 6.03 acres in Meriden, Connecticut, close to Route 691, the Merritt Parkway and Interstate 91; 34 Barnes Industrial Road South, an 51,260 SF, single-story, mixed office and warehouse building located in Wallingford, Connecticut, close to the Merritt Parkway and Interstate 91.

Lisa Lawrence

Vice President and Chief Operations Officer

• Lisa has been working in the commercial real estate business for 37 years. She is Vice President and Chief OperationsOfficer of Investment Capital Partners. She specializes in acquisition analysis and tax structuring while also supervising asset management and all financial, tax and accounting matters.

• Lisa graduated in 1985 from Fairfield University with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and minor in Information Technology. She passed the CPA exam the same year. Lisa worked in public accounting at the firm of Ernst and Young, formerly Arthur Young where most of her time was spent in the Tax Department primarily focused in the Entrepreneurial Services Group.

• After leaving Ernst and Young, Lisa joined Investment Capital Associates, which was primarily a real estate investment syndicator. While at ICA, she worked on tax and cash financial models and other acquisition and disposition analyses. Lisa also held the position of Investor Services agent for all real estate partnerships, working with investors on tax, accounting and estate matters.

• In the early 1990s, Investment Capital Partners was formed and began acquiring a portfolio of Connecticut commercial office and retail properties. Since that time, Lisa has led the acquisition analysis and asset management teams, overseeing the management of all properties and all tax and accounting matters related to the portfolio.