JOE JERNIGAN

Joe Jernigan serves as Partner at Wolverine Interests.

Joe Jernigan began his career in commercial real estate in 1980 and has been a Partner at Wolverine Interests since 2014. At Wolverine, Mr. Jernigan is actively involved in the firm’s development, acquisitions, financings, and investment sales efforts.

Mr. Jernigan’s real estate career began with three years at a commercial brokerage, where he exclusively represented a number of high-net-worth investors in the acquisition, management, and disposition of multifamily properties in the DFW markets. He then joined a Dallas-based real estate firm, where he represented a number of the firm’s institutional clients in the acquisition, management, and disposition of North Texas anchored retail properties.

During the late 1980s, Joe, working under contract with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, directed a team of thirty real estate professionals in the management and liquidation of approximately $8.0 billion of real estate assets and mortgages from insolvent Savings & Loans under government control.

In 1996, Mr. Jernigan joined GE Capital Real Estate as Senior Vice President. His responsibilities at GE included senior management of a $3 billion CMBS Special Servicing portfolio and senior manager of four “off-book” joint venture real estate transactions, comprising approximately $6 billion of non-performing GE commercial real estate assets and mortgages.

In 2000, Mr. Jernigan joined Presidio Investments, a real estate company established by a wealthy Dallas oil family focused on acquiring office buildings in the southwestern United States. During a three-year period, Mr. Jernigan acquired six office buildings valued in excess of $150 million.

In 2003, Mr. Jernigan joined the Lone Star Fund/Hudson Advisors, a $37 billion private equity fund, as Executive Vice President of North American Asset Management. At Lone Star, Mr. Jernigan directed a team responsible for the liquidation of a portfolio of real estate assets and mortgages valued in excess of $1.5 billion.

In 2006, Mr. Jernigan joined Behringer Harvard REIT as Senior Vice President, primarily responsible for the acquisition of "value-add" assets for the $500 million BH Opportunity REIT I and the $750 million BH Opportunity REIT II.

Beginning in 2010, Mr. Jernigan represented various investors and owners of commercial real estate in acquisitions, leasing, and dispositions.

Joe received his BS from Samford University.