Walton Street Capital Founder

Chicago, Illinois

Neil Bluhm started his career as a lawyer, making partner by age 31 at the Chicago firm Mayer, Brown & Platt. He left the firm to co-found JMB Realty with a business partner in 1969. The firm amassed a nationwide portfolio that grew to include several casinos.

Bluhm founded private equity firm Walton Street Capital in the 1990s. He is also a minority owner of the Chicago White Sox and Chicago Bulls. Walton Street Capital recently agreed to pay $370M for Chicago’s Equitable Building, a 760K SF Class-A office building that will soon be home to Chicago’s flagship Apple Store. — Scott Klocksin