Cushman & Wakefield adds six key professionals to its valuation & advisory group

Houston, TX Cushman & Wakefield has added six key professionals to its Valuation & Advisory group. Based in New York, Atlanta and Houston, these new hires will allow C&W to expand its growing Diligence & Advisory (D&A) practice. The D&A practice group provides underwriting and diligence support to clients including lenders, investors, bond holders, and developers in assisting them in their deal analysis and credit review functions. Brian Murray and David Risdon join the firm as senior managing directors in the New York and Atlanta office respectively, and will focus on banking and investment advisory work. Together with Matt Blair, director, this team will perform Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) stress testing, loan verification/audit work, statistical analysis of loan portfolios, loan valuation, and restructure work. The debt and equity advisory services will be available to public and private lenders, private equity funds, and real estate companies. They will form the nucleus of a sub-service line to be known as Special Operations, under the D&A practice group. Larry Lewis joined the firm as managing director in Houston, and together with Sonia Horton and Linda Le, both Directors, will focus on diligence and underwriting services for both debt and equity transactions, restructures and recapitalizations. This specifically includes due diligence and underwriting for CMBS, B-piece, mezzanine debt, preferred equity, and equity, as well as surveillance of loan portfolios. "Our goal in building up our Valuation & Advisory platform has been to add "best-in-class" professionals that "bolt on" to our core asset class expertise to deliver a 360 degree real estate support platform to our clients," said John Busi, global head of valuation & advisory for Cushman & Wakefield. “Risk analytics in their optimal form need to combine experienced diligence practitioners with real estate professionals who are actively interacting with the real estate being analyzed." The group will be led by industry veteran Anne Jablonski, executive managing director, who joined C&W just over a year ago. “Our success will be based on our market and technical knowledge, our fluid and frequent collaboration with other C&W service lines, and our underlying data. All of which allows us to offer an unparalleled product to our clients by identifying emerging trends in the CRE space,” said Jablonski. Since joining C&W, Jablonski has worked with some of the largest institutional players in the debt and equity markets expanding her career in the financial services industry where she built and supervised high profile due diligence, underwriting, and consulting services platforms.