Albert Rabil

Al Rabil is the Managing Partner and CEO of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors’ real estate private equity activities. In his role, he oversees the origination, execution, and management of private investments in specialized niche real estate sectors, principally off-campus student housing, senior housing, and medical office. Mr. Rabil began his career in the Real Estate Finance Group of the Bankers Trust Company, where he was employed between 1988 and 1993. In 1994, Mr. Rabil joined the Real Estate Banking Group of UBS, and later became Managing Director and Head of the Real Estate Banking Group for the Americas and Europe until early 2002. During his tenure, Mr. Rabil played a key role in making UBS a market leader in both syndicated debt and large loan CMBS, consummating more than $25 billion in transactions. Between 2002 and 2007, Mr. Rabil founded and was a principal of two real estate investment firms, RAMZ, LLC and Rabil Properties, LLC. During this time Mr. Rabil developed and acquired a portfolio of more than $250 million of off-campus student housing properties. Subsequently, in 2007, Mr. Rabil co-founded Kayne Anderson’s real estate private equity platform. As Managing Partner and CEO of Kayne Anderson Real Estate Advisors (KAREA), Mr. Rabil has consummated more than $3 billion of off-campus student housing acquisitions and dispositions encompassing more than 50,000 beds across the United States and Canada. Additionally, strategic joint venture partnerships in senior housing and medical office have established Kayne Anderson Real Estate Advisors as a major player and one of the largest owners in the country in both of these asset classes. In addition to his business activities, Mr. Rabil is actively involved in numerous charitable ventures. He is one of the founding Board Members of The Headstrong Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing cost-free, stigma-free, and bureaucracy-free mental healthcare for military veterans. Mr. Rabil earned a BA cum laude from Yale University in 1985 and an MBA in finance from Columbia University in 1988.