HFF hires Nieves as a director focused on M&A and corporate advisory services

New York, NY Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P. (HFF) has hired Mike Nieves as a director focused on M&A and corporate advisory services.

Nieves will work with senior managing director Steve Hentschel, who heads HFF’s M&A and corporate advisory services provided by HFF’s registered broker-deal subsidiary, HFF Securities, L.P.  

Nieves joins HFF from Citigroup’s Real Estate and Lodging Investment Banking Group.

where he was a vice president and worked on public REIT mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, and equity and debt capital markets transactions.  

Prior to Citigroup, Nieves worked at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP as a corporate lawyer, executing mergers and acquisitions as well as bank finance transactions.  Mr. Nieves earned a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Virginia, a Juris Doctorate from American University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan.