Donald Frey is a Senior Vice President of Real Estate Finance and Capital Markets at Simon Property Group, a global leader in the ownership of premier shopping, dining, entertainment and mixed-use destinations and an S&P 100 company. Don's chief responsibilities include negotiating, executing and servicing Simon's secured debt portfolio and capital markets activity. Prior to his current role, Don was Senior Finance Counsel at Simon, where his legal work focused on the company's financing matters. Don has extensive experience in all aspects of commercial real estate finance, with a particular emphasis on mortgage loan originations. Before joining Simon, Don practiced law at Dechert LLP and Alston & Bird LLP in New York, where he represented banks and institutional investors in the origination, servicing, sale and restructuring of all manner of commercial real estate debt.

Don is a graduate of Indiana University with a BS in Kinesiology.