MBTT&PARTNERSMBTT & Partners, home

About

A partner worth keeping.


MBTT & Partners was built to stand beside its clients through a transaction, not to introduce a deal and disappear.

I built the first chapter of my career in enterprise strategy. As a consultant with Deloitte, and later leading transformation programs for Fortune 500 technology, media, and telecommunications clients, my work was never transactional. It was relational. I was brought in to understand a business deeply, to earn a seat at the table, and to stay accountable for the outcome long after the engagement began. That discipline, knowing a client’s world as well as they do and standing behind the advice, is the foundation of everything I do now.

Working at the center of the technology sector, I watched the lines between infrastructure and real estate begin to blur. The same forces I advised on, data, connectivity, and computing at scale, were reshaping what gets built and where. So I moved toward it, spending recent years in technology-infrastructure real estate, powered land, and data center development, where the enterprise fluency I had built became a genuine advantage.

I founded MBTT & Partners to bring the discipline of the boardroom to commercial real estate, an industry crowded with intermediaries who close a transaction and move on. I built this firm to work the opposite way. We take on a small number of relationships, structure each engagement by hand, and stay aligned with our clients from first conversation through close. Depending on the deal, we act as broker or as principal, whichever serves the client best.

That principal alignment is deliberate. I believe the intermediary should be as accountable as everyone else in the room. So where it fits, I put my name on the partnership and stand in the outcome alongside the sponsor and the capital, rather than stepping away at the introduction.

Our focus reflects where relationships and capital are moving: powered land, data center development, multifamily, and mixed-use. The firm is based in New York and works selectively on referral in Texas on industrial and data-center development.

I am not in the business of closing deals. I am in the business of becoming the partner worth keeping.

Leonard M. Colson Jr., Managing Partner of MBTT & Partners

Leonard M. Colson Jr.

Managing Partner

Licensure

MBTT & Partners LLC · Licensed Real Estate Broker · License No. 10491214372