Colliers expands Dallas healthcare team
Colliers added a healthcare and office team to its Dallas operation, the brokerage said. The team is led by Executive Vice President Tanya Hart and includes a total of four brokers formerly with Hart Commercial.
The other brokers who joined Colliers are Senior Vice President Allison Frizzo, Senior Associate Lauren Jahner and Vice President Jackie Dragojevic.
Hart is a 35-year industry veteran who previously founded Hart Advisors Group and Hart Commercial, firms that provided services including distressed debt advisory. Frizzo has more than 15 years of experience managing large office portfolios and co-founded Hart Commercial.
CBRE promotes finance broker
CBRE promoted finance broker Maximiliane "Maxi" Leachman to vice chair, its highest rank for company professionals. The brokerage said Leachman is part of the firm’s debt and restructured finance group, which focuses on services including senior and mezzanine debt and equity secured for multifamily, office, retail and industrial properties and developments.
Leachman joined CBRE as an underwriting analyst in 2014 and has since received six promotions. Prior to her work at CBRE, she handled Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loan originations and underwriting for a large commercial real estate finance firm.
Newmark boosts multifamily services
Christopher Lyon and Brooks Colquitt joined Newmark as senior managing directors, handling capital market services in the Southeast region geared to multifamily investment. The brokerage said Lyon is based in Mobile, Alabama, and Colquitt is based in Atlanta.
Chad Lavender, Newmark’s president of capital markets for North America, said the Southeast is a “critical growth market” for the brokerage. Lavender also said Newmark is expanding its finance offerings in the multifamily category. The brokerage said the Southeast has been the nation’s busiest region for multifamily investment sales since 2021.
PEG Cos. hires chief legal officer
PEG Cos., a Provo, Utah-based owner and developer of hospitality and multifamily properties, hired Andrew Kwok as its chief legal officer. The firm said Kwok was most recently a partner in a Los Angeles-based law firm, counseling clients, including private equity firms.
He also served as general counsel to a Nasdaq-listed real estate investment trust among other clients and previously worked as managing director in the legal department of a British bank’s investment arm. PEG said Kwok "has played a pivotal role in numerous complex cross-border transactions." He established a joint venture involving a Latin American private equity firm that partnered with an Asian sovereign wealth fund to develop multifamily properties in Mexico. Kwok also has experience working in transactions with Japanese investors, PEG said.
UDR promotes two executives
UDR promoted Mike Lacy to chief operating officer and appointed Joe Fisher to chief investment officer, the Denver-based multifamily real estate investment trust said. Lacy joined UDR in 2006 and most recently served as senior vice president of operations.
Fisher has served as UDR’s chief financial officer since 2017 and will retain that position in addition to overseeing the company’s investment and development functions.
Fisher also retains the role of UDR’s president. The company said it will initiate an executive search process to recruit a new CFO to succeed Fisher.