Sunday, February 17, 2013

HFF West Coast Leadership Announcements



Daniel M. Cashdan
 LOS ANGELES, CA – HFF experienced significant growth on the West Coast in 2012 and in response to this growth the firm has made changes to its West Coast leadership team. 

Dan Cashdan, a senior managing director in HFF’s Los Angeles office, has assumed the role of co-head of HFF’s Global Capital Initiative with a specific focus on Asian capital markets.  He will continue to co-lead the firm’s equity placement and HFF Securities business lines with senior managing director Doug Bond.

Kevin MacKenzie
Senior managing director Kevin MacKenzie assumed the role of co-office head alongside senior managing director Paul Brindley in HFF’s Los Angeles office.  Together they will oversee the debt, equity placement and investment sales platforms in the Los Angeles office.  MacKenzie will continue his role as office head of the debt and equity placement team in Orange County.

Michael Leggett will act as co-office head of HFF’s Portland office, focused on the investment sales platform.  Leggett will continue his role as office head of investment sales in San Francisco. MacKenzie will also step into a leadership position in the Portland and Seattle markets, as co-head of the Portland office, managing its debt placement team. 

Michael Leggett
“The changes in our leadership on the West Coast is in keeping with our corporate mission, which is to identify leaders of our business, and to put them in positions which appropriately match their skills, aligning interests to significantly grow our presence in a given market and/or business line,” said Mark Gibson, executive managing director and member of HFF’s four-person leadership team. 

In 2012, HFF’s West Coast offices closed approximately $6.5 billion in transactions across all platforms and property types, a more than 45 percent increase over 2011. 

Mark Gibson
HFF’s West Coast offices debt and equity placement volume grew approximately 30 percent over 2011 to $4.35 billion, and investment sales volume grew nearly 115 percent to $2.1 billion.

 Gibson added, “The year over year performance is a significant accomplishment for the teams involved and a testament to the success of HFF in growing its West Coast practice.”

Contact:

Kristen M. Murphy
Associate Director
HFF | 9 Greenway Plaza, Suite 700 | Houston, TX 77046
tel 713.852.3500 | cel 617.543.4873 | fax 713.527.8725 | www.hfflp.com

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