Following a 13-month competitive bidding process, PCCP, LLC recently took over two Lehman Bros. private-equity mezzanine funds with more than $2 billion in assets. The transaction involving the collapsed New York investment house instantly made the California-based real estate investment firm a coast-to-coast player. William R. Lindsay co-founded PCCP, LLC in 1998 with partners Don Kuemmeler, Nicholas Colonna and Aaron Giovara. Formerly Pacific Coast Capital Partners, PCCP has closed about 400 originated transactions totaling about $6.5 billion and has about $6 billion under management today. Transaction volume to date since its inception, including the Lehman positions, totals about $8.5 billion. PCCP manages four commingled funds of institutional investors, including banks, insurance companies and foundations, and five joint ventures with pension investors. The Lehman Brothers Real Estate Mezzanine Partners I and II funds were formed in 2005 and 2007. PCCP renamed the funds PCCP Mezzanine Recovery Partners I and II following the closing of the transaction in December and opened a nine-person office in New York on Park Avenue. CoStar Advisor caught up with Lindsay recently to chat about the Lehman transaction and PCCP's strategies for doing business in today's torpid debt and equity markets.