HFF expands west coast investment sales platform with the addition of a top Southern California investment team

IRVINE, CA – HFF (Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P.) announced today that a top Southern California investment sales team led by Ryan Gallagher (top right photo) and Kelly Rohfeld (middle left photo) will join the firm.

 Formerly one of the top national teams for Grubb & Ellis’ Institutional Capital Group, they will be focused on institutional investment sales for HFF, primarily in Southern California.

The addition of this new team marks HFF’s third expansion effort on the west coast during the past 12 months and demonstrates the firm’s commitment to expanding its services and growing its investment sales platform. HFF now offers its clients a full array of capital markets services on the west coast including debt placement, investment sales, advisory services, structured finance, private equity, loan sales and commercial loan servicing.

Ryan Gallagher (Ca. Lic. #01269918), who was a senior vice president at Grubb & Ellis, will join HFF as a senior managing director.

Kelly Rohfeld (Ca. Lic. # 01820580), a 16-year industry veteran who was a vice president at Grubb & Ellis, will join HFF as a director.

Over the past 40 months the team has been involved with the disposition and acquisition of more than $1.4 billion of commercial real estate transactions in the Southwestern United States.

HFF has its roots as a real estate investment banking company. Since 1998, the company and its predecessor companies have closed approximately $230 billion in more than 11,000 debt and equity transactions. HFF maintains a loan servicing portfolio totaling more than $24 billion in debt.

“HFF’s long-term goal of expanding our investment sales presence on the west coast has truly gained momentum with our recruiting efforts in 2009. The recent additions of the Leggett/Rohm team in San Francisco in May, Bryan Ley in our Los Angeles office in late 2008, and now the Gallagher team in Orange County has solidified HFF’s investment sale presence and will enable us to better serve our clients in the west coast markets,” said Donald J. Curtis, (bottom right photo) senior managing director..

HFF (NYSE: HF) operates out of 17 offices nationwide and is a leading provider of commercial real estate and capital markets services to the U.S. commercial real estate industry. HFF offers clients a fully integrated national capital markets platform including debt placement, investment sales, advisory services, structured finance, private equity, loan sales and commercial loan servicing.

Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P., acting by and through Holliday GP Corp., a real estate broker licensed with the California Department of Real Estate, License Number 01385740.

Contacts:

Donald J. Curtis, HFF Senior Managing Director, Ca. Lic. #00883924, (949) 253-8800, dcurtis@hfflp.com
Kristen M. Murphy, HFF Associate Director, Marketing, (713) 852-3500, krmurphy@hfflp.com