Mohr Partners Expands in Northeast, CBRE Recruits Executive From JLL, Colliers Expands Life Science Group

September 30, 2022September 30, 2022 Admin

Mohr Partners, a global end-to-end corporate real estate services firm, is growing in the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut region, and has recruited a 27-year industry veteran to lead the charge.

Harry Delany has joined Mohr Partners as a senior member of the firm’s global corporate services division in New York City.

In his new role, Delany will oversee account and transaction management for occupier services clients, including leading Fortune 500 firms that have hired Mohr to handle management of their industrial, office, retail and healthcare real estate.

Delany will also be part of the company’s strategy and growth team, led by Misti Meggs, who oversees portfolio strategy, site selection, business incentives and change management for Mohr Partners’ large-cap enterprise clients.

In a statement, Meggs said that Delany’s “extensive experience in managing and executing complex real estate transactions will allow him to help our clients navigate through the changes taking place in today’s workplace.”

Delany most recently served as a senior member of Colliers’ global corporate services division for nearly five years, where he was responsible for supervising transaction and account management functions for some of the brokerage’s largest occupier clients.

Before that, Delany worked at Marcus & Millichap in New Jersey and New York. He began his corporate real estate career in 1995 as a transaction manager for AT&T’s global real estate, overseeing $1.5 billion in real estate transactions during his eight years there.

The news comes on the heels of Mohr Partners’ announcement that it hired seasoned financial real estate veteran Ben Fujihara in its Dallas headquarters. Fujihara is leading the firm’s national brokerage recruiting program with the stated goal of doubling its U.S. brokerage headcount over the next five years as part of Mohr’s long-term growth plan.

Brian Golden

Brian Golden has joined CBRE’s industrial and logistics advisory team as an executive vice president in its Saddle Brook, New Jersey, office.

In his new role, Golden will continue to represent clients in the development and implementation of real estate strategies throughout the Northeast, with a focus on institutional landlord and tenant representation.

“Brian’s deep experience in leasing, development, finance and asset management enables him to provide unmatched expertise to clients,” said Matt Van Buren, president of CBRE’s New York Tri-State region, in a statement announcing the new hire. “His joining our team continues our long-term commitment to providing our clients with both broad and deep real estate knowledge and market expertise.”

Golden most recently served as an executive managing director at JLL, where he represented clients in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware. Before that, he worked as a senior leasing manager for Prologis, overseeing leasing activity for more than 20 million square feet of industrial and warehouse space across the Garden State, and earlier in his career he handled leasing activity for the former Mack-Cali.

Kim Barry has joined Colliers as a senior vice president with its rapidly expanding Boston life science practice group.

In her new role, Barry will assist industry-leading life science companies with identifying and developing space that meets the unique business and operational requirements in the competitive Boston market, including site selection, vendor procurement, budgeting and timeline management.

Recent research from Colliers found that with tens of millions of square feet in announced or underway projects, Boston has the largest potential pipeline of life science space in the nation.

Barry brings more than 15 years of experience in the biotech sector, including research and operations. She most recently worked at Venture Forward Partners, where she consulted with companies on laboratory design and operations as well as relocation services. Before entering the commercial real estate sector, Barry worked for several local biotech companies as a bench scientist at both R&D and GMP laboratories.

Ben Galles has been promoted to executive vice president at Nevada-based Logic Commercial Real Estate.

In his expanded role, Galles will continue specializing in multifamily investment sales. He is a top-producing broker in the firm’s Reno office and continues to represent a majority of the market’s multifamily listings, according to the company.

Galles has more than 20 years of experience in northern Nevada real estate, most recently serving as a vice president with Logic. Before that, he worked at Cushman & Wakefield and Keller Realty Co. in Reno.

Brice W. Head has joined CBRE as a senior vice president in the firm’s El Segundo office.

In his new role, Head will support the global brokerage’s multifamily business in greater Los Angeles and Southern California’s South Bay area.

Head brings more than 20 years of commercial real estate experience, most recently as a senior vice president of investments at Marcus & Millichap, where he focused on seller and buyer representation for investment properties throughout the region and was one of the firm’s top salespeople.

JLL Capital Markets has hired Jorge Portela as a senior director with its retail investment sales advisory team in Miami.

After nearly six years with HFF, which JLL acquired in 2019, Portela will join the JLL retail capital markets team co-led by Senior Managing Director Danny Finkle to continue to build the brokerage firm’s retail business throughout the South Florida markets.

He has advised clients on more than $3 billion in real estate transactions throughout the Southeast as a member of an office investment sales team. He most recently served as principal and founder of Riverstone Capital Group, a private real estate investment firm where he led acquisition and asset management functions and closed on more than $500 million in completed transactions.

Teddy Childers has joined Cushman & Wakefield as a senior director with its Sun Belt multifamily advisory group. He is based in San Antonio.

In his new role, Childers will focus on multifamily investment sales across the region and bolster the group’s presence locally. Cushman & Wakefield’s Sun Belt multifamily advisory group employs over 100 investment sales professionals and staff covering 11 states.

Childers brings more than 16 years of commercial real estate experience, having completed more than 250 lease transactions totaling over 4 million square feet and led a dozen asset dispositions valued in excess of $1 billion. He most recently worked at Capital Commercial Investments, where he oversaw the company’s 12 million-square-foot office portfolio and monitored asset performance for the firm.

Regional commercial and residential real estate developer and owner Diversified Properties has hired Jon Leifer as director of acquisitions and development in its Montville, New Jersey, office.

In his new role, Leifer will oversee building and land acquisitions and development efforts as the company looks to capitalize in key growth markets.

Leifer most recently served as head of real estate for Bowery Farming, a New York-based vertical farming and indoor agriculture company, where he led expansion strategy, site selection, leasing, development and entitlement across New Jersey, Maryland and Pennsylvania. Before that, Leifer served as director of acquisitions for Case Real Estate Capital.