Cushman & Wakefield is a commercial real estate firm headquartered in Chicago, founded in 1917. DTZ, a rival firm backed by private equity firm TPG, acquired Cushman & Wakefield for $2 billion in 2015 from Turin-based Exor, the investment arm of Italys Agnelli family. Brett White serves as chairman and chief executive of the combined firm, which is owned by an investor group composed of TPG, PAG and OTPP and has dropped the DTZ name. It has 43,000 employees and more than 4.3 billion square feet under management. Cushman & Wakefield specializes as a leasing and investment-sales broker and provides real estate financial and property management services. Its clients have includes the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Brookfield Properties, the Trump Organization, Tishman Speyer, Boston Properties, Morgan Stanley, SL Green Realty and the Blackstone Group.

Cushman & Wakefield was ranked no. 3 in The Real Deal’s annual investment sales ranking covering 2016.