FRED COOPER
MPP '84
Toll Brothers (NYSE:TOL) is a $10 billion Fortune 500 (#394) Company founded in 1967, and today is ranked the 4th largest U.S. home builder by revenues. Toll is also among the largest land and community developers in the U.S. and among the largest multifamily rental apartment developers. Toll is Investment Grade rated by all three major credit ratings covering the homebuilding sector.
Toll operates in 24 states and over 60 markets in the U.S. Projects include urban and suburban for-sale, rental, student, urban high-rise, condo, 55+, single-family build-to-rent, and master planned communities, and numerous land development, urban redevelopment, and mixed-use projects ranging from $10 million to over $1 billion.
Fred Cooper is Senior Vice President - Strategic Partnerships. He focuses on developing and expanding new and existing domestic and international relationships for equity and debt, as well as establishing institutional-level relationship opportunities to help drive the growth of our various platforms, including homebuilding, rental apartment, urban condo, land acquisition & development, build-to-rent, and other businesses. He also works to engage with lenders and investors with whom Toll Brothers can collaborate to reposition or repurpose challenged property and loan portfolios held by those groups.
Fred joined Toll Brothers in 1993 to establish and lead its Finance and Investor Relations departments, serving for several decades as Senior Vice President - Finance and Investor Relations. As Toll Brothers’ in-house investment bank, the group is responsible for our capital markets, investor relations and financial planning activities, as well as our partnering relationships with major U.S. and international institutions. Since formation, the group has raised over $30 billion from banks, the public capital markets, and institutional partners. In addition to capital raising, the group advises on complex project structuring, joint ventures, corporate mergers and acquisitions, and major property acquisitions.
Fred has been financial point for the creation of Toll Brothers City Living, which has now built over 6,000 urban high-rise condos in 50 buildings, Toll Brothers Apartment Living, which has developed over $4 billion of urban and suburban rental assets nationally, and several other start up initiatives.
Fred received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University and a Master of Public Policy degree focused on finance and international development from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
Fred serves on the Harvard Alumni Real Estate Board, and the University of Wisconsin Graaskamp Center Real Estate Advisory Board and is a member of the ULI Global Exchange Council.
He is an active mentor and lecturer at a variety of graduate-level real estate programs, including the Wharton International Housing Finance Program, and works with a number of for-profit and non-profit organizations focused on affordable housing in global emerging markets.
