Newmark, the listed global real estate broker, has appointed Steve Williamson as managing director and Matthew Kang as associate to its debt and structured finance UK & EMEA Capital Markets team in London.

The duo plan to work with Michael Lehrman, president of Newmark, United Kingdom, and Matthew Featherstone, Newmark's head of debt and structured finance in the United Kingdom and Europe. They are also set to work closely with Charlie Foster, head of real estate investment banking, in the United Kingdom and Europe, at Newmark affiliate Cantor Fitzgerald, on large scale debt and structured finance assignments.
 
New Newmark broker Williamson "is one of the longest serving debt advisory veterans" in the United Kingdom, Lehrman said in a statement. He added that Williamson's expertise in leading complex, large-ticket transactions and other banking experience, will complement the team led by Featherstone in the United Kingdom, and globally by Jonathan Firestone and Jordan Roeschlaub, as well as Anthony Orso, the head of Newmark Capital Strategies, in the United States.

Williamson previously served as chairman of debt and structured finance at brokerage CBRE, where for 13 years he led debt origination for the United Kingdom and Europe, Middle East, and Africa region, and worked on complex transactions. Prior to CBRE, Williamson spent 25 years in the banking and finance industries as a real estate lending and debt professional, most recently as the head of United Kingdom debt origination for Deutsche Bank.

Based in London, Kang has expertise in the real estate finance sector as a debt adviser and lender, having previously served as associate director of debt and structured finance at CBRE following a career in banking.

Newmark described the recruitment of the duo as "another milestone" as the brokerage continues to expand its debt, equity, corporate finance and capital markets business across the United Kingdom and Europe, following the appointment of Featherstone to head debt for the region, the acquisition of London-based real estate advisory firms BH2, Gerald Eve and Harper Dennis Hobbs and the hires Newmark has made adding capital markets leaders in its Paris office.

For the year ended Dec. 31, Newmark generated revenues of about $2.5 billion. As of March 31, Newmark’s company-owned offices, together with its business partners, operate from approximately 170 offices with 7,600 professionals around the world.