Dive Brief:
- Boca Raton, Florida-based Eastham Capital, a private equity investment firm, has hired Anthony Librot to be its first chief financial officer, according to a news release shared with Multifamily Dive.
- Librot, who is responsible for accounting, compliance and risk management, will be actively involved in real estate acquisitions and dispositions, development, financing and capital planning, per the release.
- In 2025, Eastham Capital added nearly 2,000 units to its portfolio of 15,080 apartments, necessitating “some new and experienced financial hands to help assist us in our growth,” Matthew Rosenthal, founder and managing director of Eastham Capital, told Multifamily Dive in emailed comments.
Dive Insight:
Librot spent the last seven years as the chief operating and financial officer at AAM 15 Management, a Massachusetts real estate investment and management company. For the prior 15 years, he was a member of Waldron H. Rand & Company P.C., a public accounting firm. Before that, Librot was a member of the audit staff of KPMG, according to the release.
At Eastham, Librot will serve as the firm’s compliance and risk officer as it starts to market to and work with more institutional-grade investors, according to Rosenthal. Librot has more than 30 years of accounting and financial experience and has worked on various asset types across the U.S., including multifamily, retail, hospitality and country clubs.
Rosenthal said the new role coincides with the launch of the company’s newest and potentially largest multifamily investment fund, Eastham Capital Fund VII, LP.
Even before the launch of the new fund, the team at Eastham had been busy adding properties to its portfolio, according to multiple press releases on its website.
In July, it teamed with Merion Realty Partners, a Wynnewood, Pennsylvania-based multifamily owner-operator, to buy the Foxrun and North Pointe apartment communities in Clifton Park, New York.
In April, Eastham partnered with Chicago-based Bender Cos. to buy The Colonial, a 258-unit property in Omaha, Nebraska. In February, it purchased Haven Hoffman Estates, a 550-unit apartment community in the Chicago suburb of Hoffman Estates, after acquiring Equinox, a 266-unit residential community in St. Anthony, Minnesota, in January.
In October 2024, Eastham and its Houston-based multifamily owner-operator Mosaic Residential acquired Amber Oaks and Park Place in the Houston suburb of Pearland.
“Our local partner, Mosaic, has an excellent history with the broker, and the broker knew that if Mosaic was awarded the deal, Mosaic would close,” Rosenthal told Multifamily Dive at the time. “In addition, one of the Mosaic partners was acquainted with the seller. That always helps as well.”
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