Al Rabil is CEO of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, L.P., overseeing strategic initiatives, operations and asset management across Kayne’s investment platforms. In 2007, Rabil co-founded Kayne Anderson’s real estate private equity platform (KA Real Estate) and continues to serve as KA Real Estate’s CEO, setting strategic direction, overseeing overall investment activities, and leading fundraising for all KA Real Estate investments.
Immediately prior to co-founding KA Real Estate, Rabil founded and was a principal of two real estate investment firms, RAMZ, LLC and Rabil Properties, LLC, where he developed and acquired a portfolio of more than $250 million of off-campus student housing properties. This was preceded by an almost ten year stint at UBS where Rabil served as a Managing Director and Head of Real Estate Banking for the Americas and Europe. During his tenure there he 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. Rabil began his career in the Real Estate Finance Group of the Bankers Trust Company.
Rabil earned a B.A. cum laude from Yale University in 1985 and an M.B.A. in Finance from Columbia University in 1988.