Investment sales team joins HFF San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – HFF (Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P.) announced today that a team of capital markets associates led by senior managing directors Michael Leggett (top right photo) and Gerry Rohm (top left photo) will join the firm’s San Francisco office.

The team members, formerly of Cornish & Carey Commercial Institutional Investment Services Group, will focus on investment sales transactions primarily on the West Coast.

The Leggett and Rohm team will join HFF’s existing San Francisco office of four senior debt and structured finance professionals who are led by senior managing director and co-office head, Bruce Ganong, who opened the San Francisco office of HFF in late 2006.

The Leggett and Rohm team has more than 50 years of transaction experience having consummated approximately $4.6 billion of commercial real estate transactions consisting primarily of office, research and development and industrial properties since January 2004, including more than $400 million in 2008.

In addition, they closed a Bay Area research/development and industrial portfolio for nearly $60 million in the first quarter of 2009.

“As we have repeatedly stated since going public, we remain focused on strategic growth, both organically and from outside recruitment.

" With regard to outside recruitment, when the right people who have the highest level of integrity and best reputations in a market become available, we are prepared to take the necessary steps in both favorable economic times, as well as in challenging conditions as we now currently face, to bring on new, proven, experienced and talented transaction professionals who believe in the same culture and approach to the business,” said Jody Thornton, (bottom right photo) executive managing director in the Dallas office of HFF.

Contacts:

Joe B. Thornton Jr., HFF Executive Managing Director, (214) 265-0880, jthornton@hfflp.com

Bruce Ganong, HFF Senior Managing Director, (415) 276-6300,bganong@hfflp.com

Kristen M. Murphy, HFF Associate Director, Marketing, (713) 852-3500, krmurphy@hfflp.com