Address: 27 Byram Shore Road, Greenwich, CT 06830
Phone: (203) 531-5999
Email: al@shehadiadvisory.com
Al Shehadi is the principal of Shehadi Advisory, a community development financial advisory firm serving lenders, investors and developers, with a particular expertise in HTC and NMTC transactions. Services include structuring and executing complex, high impact debt and equity transactions and assisting closed transactions that experience performance challenges.
Al has 30 years’ experience in community development finance. Before starting Shehadi Advisory, Al was Chief Lending Officer at Vital Healthcare Capital, a national CDFI providing capital and technical assistance to healthcare providers in low-income communities. Before that, Al ran the originations side of Enterprise’s NMTC program, including substantially expanding Enterprise’s investments in twinned HTC – NMTC transactions. Before Enterprise, Al was a senior originator at the National Trust Community Investment Corporation, where he structured more than $100mm of HTC investments, including the first twinned HTC-NMTC investment in the country. Al started in community development finance in the 1990’s at the National Equity Fund, a leading national LIHTC syndicator.
Al serves on the Corporation for Supportive Housing’s NMTC Advisory Board. Al served on the Housing Development Fund’s Board from 2006 to 2021 and its executive committee for six years.
Al holds a BS in Applied Math from Brown and an MPA from Princeton.