The Real Deal New York

Mitchell Steir is the chairman and CEO of Savills Studley, one of New York Citys leading commercial real estate services firms. He works out of its 399 Park Avenue headquarters.

In addition to his executive roles, Steir has been the firms top-producing broker nationwide since shortly after joining Savills Studleys precursor in 1988. He has closed more than 60 million square feet in leases over his career, which began in the early 1980s at the old Huberth & Peters.

His clients, including as an advisors as well as a leasing broker, have included Time Warner, Ralph Lauren, Tiffany & Co., Accenture, Jones Day, Credit Agricole, Winston & Strawn, the Rockefeller Group, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP. Steirs 1,750,000-square-foot restructure and extension of Time Inc.s corporate headquarters lease at 1271 Avenue of the Americas in 1999 remains the biggest Manhattan leasing deal ever.

Steir also helped shepherd through the merger of Studley with Savills in May 2014, retaining his titles from Studley with the newly created firm.

Steir earned an economics degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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