JLL made two recent personnel moves: Dillon Bergum, who joined the Southern California multifamily investment sales team, and Paul Brindley, who returned to the U.S. to co-head the Los Angeles capital markets office.
Bergum, throughout his career, closed about $6 billion in trades — and prior to landing at JLL, was on a Newmark capital markets team. He had stints at Cushman & Wakefield and CBRE.
Brindley was based in Singapore, where he helmed JLL’s Asia-Pacific debt and structured finance business. He has been with JLL, via a merger, for more than two decades. Some of Brindley’s major Los Angeles transactions include $1 billion floating rate debt for CBS Studio Center and a $380 million mezzanine loan for the Pendry hotel.
Here’s who else is moving in Southern California’s commercial real estate world.
- Lincoln Property Company tapped Nicole Audette to head Los Angeles property management, which handles 36 million square feet across 325 buildings. Audette joined Lincoln from Transwestern, where she oversaw more than 6 million square feet of commercial real estate. Earlier in her career, she held management roles at Kearny Real Estate Company and JLL.
- CBRE has tapped Josh Caruana as Los Angeles’ north region market leader, overseeing operations in Glendale, Woodland Hills and Oxnard offices. He’ll oversee day-day leadership for lines of business including leasing, sales, valuations, debt and structured finance, and property management. He joined CBRE from Marcus & Millichap, where he focused on brokerage and sales management in Southern California.
- Philip Voorhees joined Manhattan Beach-based real estate investment and operating company Bison Partners to oversee acquisitions and capital markets. Voorhees served as vice chairman of CBRE’s retail capital markets team, where he completed more than 1,080 transactions totaling over $15 billion in value.
- Commercial real estate advisory firm SRS Real Estate Partners added three industrial professionals to its Newport Beach office: Ian Diaz, Tyler Gebauer and Sean Harlow. All three were at Marcus & Millichap. Diaz and Gebauer will focus on the acquisition, disposition and leasing of industrial real estate throughout Southern California; Harlow will specialize in commercial investment and leasing.
- Los Angeles-based Dekel Capital hired Gilda Rivera. Rivera, who has more than 25 years of experience in commercial real estate finance, will advise sponsors and investors on debt and equity capital placement.
- NAI Capital Commercial hired Maurice Nieman to join its investment services group in its Orange County office in Irvine. Nieman held prior executive roles at Savills and CBRE.
- Greysteel acquired Nara Advisors, a San Diego-headquartered commercial real estate advisory firm. Nara’s founder and chief executive, Jason Lee, will have a senior leadership role at Greysteel.
And, in case you missed it, Cain hired a heavy hitter for One Beverly Hills: ex-J.P. Morgan Chase vice chairman and former Los Angeles Dodgers president: Bob Graziano.
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