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11/18/15
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Guy Ponticello / Bruce Westwood-Booth -- CBRE Capital Markets has strengthened its Corporate Capital Markets and Net Lease Property Group in the Americas with the appointments of Guy Ponticiello as Managing Director, and Bruce Westwood-Booth as Executive Vice President. CBRE’s Corporate Capital Markets team provides advice, qualitative and quantitative analysis, and execution for alternative capital solutions for corporately owned and occupied real estate. CBRE’s Net Lease Property Group advises institutions, private equity firms, REITs, developers and investors in all facets of single-tenant net-leased properties. Based in Chicago, Ponticiello will become the group’s national practice leader. Ponticiello and Westwood-Booth will work with the existing group members to grow the practice in the U.S., with the aim of strengthening CBRE’s position as the market leader. Both professionals join CBRE from JLL and will report to Kevin Aussef, Executive Managing Director, Investment Properties, Capital Markets, CBRE, and Brian McAuliffe, President, Institutional Properties, Capital Markets, CBRE, who lead the company’s investment sales businesses in the United States.
Ponticiello brings more than 23 years of real estate transaction experience with corporations, institutional investors, financial institutions and developer clients and has sold in excess of $15 bil of real estate assets during his career. A significant component of his transaction sales expertise stems from sale-leaseback, build-to-suit developments, net lease investment sales, acquisitions and corporate surplus dispositions throughout the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Recent transactions for Ponticiello include: $540 mil State Farm net lease portfolio sale, $300 mil Citibank sale-leaseback portfolio, $240 mil SunTrust net lease portfolio sale, and various sale-leaseback assignments on behalf of Walgreens Corporations in excess of $300 mil.
Westwood-Booth has 28 years of corporate finance experience and has led numerous nationally renowned transaction assignments valued in excess of $9 bil during his career. Recently, Westwood-Booth has been involved with or led the Capital Market efforts for some of the most high profile headquarter, build-to-suit and sale leaseback assignments in the U.S. including Zurich North America’s 750k sf headquarters, Navistar Corporation’s 1.2 msf headquarters, Toyota North America’s 1 msf headquarters, Mercedes Benz USA headquarters, Tate & Lyle USA headquarters and various other clients.
Jim McGrath /Tom Pappas / Mike Easter -- Newmark Grubb Knight Frank (NGKF) has expanded its Denver operation’s regional tenant representation and financial client services divisions with the addition of Jim McGrath as executive managing director and Tom Pappas as managing director, along with Mike Easter, managing director with NGKF Capital Markets.
McGrath brings more than 29 years of experience to NGKF. During his career, he has completed in excess of 10 msf of transactions, including headquarter, build-to-suits and multi-market assignments. His expertise is helping companies accurately define their requirements and then financially structure real estate solutions that maximize flexibility and minimize occupancy costs. Jim’s client roster comprises national and international companies alike, including Kutak Rock, National CineMedia, Rio Tinto and Red Robin.
Tenant representation expert Pappas joins NGKF having completed 4.6 msf in transactions for high-profile firms including National CineMedia, Mikron and MPEG LA. Tom was also previously responsible for managing internet advertising firm ReachLocal’s national portfolio. Both Jim and Tom were previously with Savills Studley.
Debt and equity placement specialist Easter will work in conjunction with Colorado’s premier multihousing specialists ARA, A Newmark Company (ARA Newmark) to expand the firm’s national debt and structured finance services. Mike offers more than 15 years of experience in investment real estate, completing over $2.5 bil in transactions including $1.5 bil in multihousing debt and equity placement transactions.
Jared Dienstag -- Jared Dienstag has been hired as Senior Research Analyst in the Orange County region for JLL. In this role, Dienstag will oversee the research team, analyzing Orange County's office, industrial and retail markets as well as tracking wider commercial real estate and economic trends in order to provide strategic insight to JLL professionals and clients. Prior to joining JLL, Dienstag served as senior research analyst at Cushman & Wakefield where he tracked and analyzed Orange County and Los Angeles commercial real estate markets.
Chalvis Evans / Kyle Barratt / Gerard Poutier -- Chalvis Evans has joined CBRE as Senior Vice President, along with his team, Kyle Barratt and Gerard Poutier. Based in the Los Angeles North office, the team will focus on investment sales and tenant representation.
Prior to joining CBRE, Evans served as a Senior Vice President for Coldwell Banker Commercial in the Pasadena office, where he specialized in the investment sales and tenant representation of in the San Gabriel Valley. For the past seven years, he has been the top producing broker in both total consideration and market share in the San Gabriel Valley submarket. In 2014, Evans was involved in transactions totaling more than $125 mil.
Bill Dougherty / Sean Ivery / Jennie Karnes / Adam Sharp / Olivia Tattory -- Bill Dougherty, Sean Ivery, Jennie Karnes, Adam Sharp and Olivia Tattory have joined CBRE San Francisco’s downtown office in the Data Center Solutions Group. Dougherty joins as Executive Vice President, Ivery as Senior Vice President, Karnes as Vice President, Sharp as Senior Associate and Tattory as Transaction Manager. The team will advise technology-reliant companies, both emerging and large corporate users, in navigating the technical infrastructure and operating rights required for data center facilities.
The Northern California based team has more than 40 years of combined data center industry and mission critical tenant representation experience. As data center advisors, they each bring unique expertise including site selection, due diligence and leasing and capital markets. Since 1999, the team has completed more than 3.5 msf of data center transactions worldwide, representing more than 270 MW of critical IT load.
Prior to joining CBRE, Dougherty and Ivery, along with their team, served as key members of Cushman & Wakefield’s Data Center Advisory Group. Their background in data center requirements translates well into their new role at CBRE, where they will be joining more than 100 other professionals on CBRE’s international data center team.
Keith J. Pollock -- Real estate attorney Keith J. Pollock was hired by Allen Matkins in its Los Angeles office. As a member of the firm's renowned Real Estate Department, Keith represents owners, operators, asset managers, developers and lenders on a broad range of commercial and corporate-based real estate transactions. In addition to Keith's hire, Allen Matkins has added a diverse mix of 16 attorneys to its Real Estate, Corporate and Litigation Departments over the past year. In the last six months, the firm has hired experienced attorneys from other prominent law firms including Latham & Watkins, Mintz Levin and Hinshaw & Culbertson, as well as a former assistant general counsel from JPMorgan Chase Bank.
Prior to joining Allen Matkins, Keith was a real estate associate at Olshan Frome Wolosky LLP in New York City where he counseled a wide variety of clients regarding commercial office leasing, the acquisition, disposition and development of commercial real estate assets, and real estate finance. Some of Keith's more notable deals include representing the seller of a $139 mil three-building portfolio on South Beach, Miami's famed Lincoln Road - Florida's largest retail sale in 2012; representing the purchaser of a $51 mil acquisition of The Raleigh Hotel, also located in South Beach; and representing Madison 92nd Street Associates in its $82 mil sale of the Courtyard Marriott in Manhattan to RLJ Lodging Acquisitions, part of Madison 92nd Street's successful Chapter 11 filing.
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