HFF (Holliday Fenoglio Fowler) has announced that a team of capital markets associates led by senior managing directors Michael Leggett and Gerry Rohm will join the firm’s San Francisco
HFF (Holliday Fenoglio Fowler) has announced that a team of capital markets associates led by senior managing directors Michael Leggett and Gerry Rohm 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 (pictured) 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 USD4.6bn of commercial real estate transactions consisting primarily of office, research and development and industrial properties since January 2004, including more than USD400m in 2008.
Leggett, who has 20 years of experience in commercial real estate, will head the San Francisco investment sales group and act as co-head of the office. In early 2004, Leggett, along with his partner Rohm, formed the San Francisco office of Cornish & Carey Commercial. Prior to Cornish & Carey Commercial, he was a member of CB Richard Ellis’s Institutional Group focusing solely on institutional disposition assignments on the West Coast.
Rohm has held executive-level positions in property and asset management, corporate services and investment sales at Cabot, Cabot & Forbes, Koll Management Services, CB Richard Ellis and Kennedy Wilson before working with Cornish & Carey Commercial as one of the founding brokers of their San Francisco office. He has 14 years of experience in the industry.
‘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,’ says Jody Thornton, executive managing director in the Dallas office of HFF.
