PE Firm Lone Star Names CEO/Global President

Donald Quintin joined Lone Star in 2010 and has served in multiple leadership positions, most recently as president of opportunity funds overseeing the origination and operations of the Opportunity Fund and the Residential Mortgage Fund strategies.

Donald Quintin has been appointed chief executive officer and global president of Dallas-based Lone Star, a global private equity firm.

Quintin joined Lone Star in 2010 and has served in multiple leadership positions, most recently as president of opportunity funds overseeing the origination and operations of the Opportunity Fund and the Residential Mortgage Fund strategies.

Before Lone Star, Quintin was a managing director at Merrill Lynch and managed various businesses and legacy portfolios. He began his career at Bankers Trust and then Salomon Brothers.

Lone Star invests in real estate, corporate equity, credit, and other financial assets.

Since the establishment of its first fund in 1995, Lone Star said it has organized 23 private equity funds with aggregate capital commitments totaling approximately $87 billion. Lone Star said it organizes its funds in three series: the Commercial Real Estate Fund series; the Opportunity Fund series; and the U.S. Residential Mortgage Fund series.

Lone Star said that since the beginning of 2013, it has raised more than $53 billion to invest for the benefit of its limited partners.

Lone Star has closed or committed to close more than 500 investments in more than 2,300 transactions at an aggregate purchase price of approximately $257 billion — including acquisition financing and co-investors — as of Dec. 31, 2023.

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