HFF Furthers West Expansion With New Hires

By Natalie Dolce

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IRVINE, CA-Holliday Fenoglio Fowler LP has hired Mike McCann as a managing director in its Orange County office to focus on investment sale and joint venture equity transactions primarily for industrial and office properties in southern California and other western US markets. The firm also is expanding its western presence by opening a full-service office in Denver with an immediate focus on debt placement, equity placement, loan sales and investment sales.

Day-to-day operations of the Denver office will be led by Eric Tupler, who joins HFF as a senior managing director. Joining Tupler will be managing director Mark Fallon, who has worked out of HFF’s Chicago office since November 2010 and specializes in loan sale advisory transactions. Executive managing director Jody Thornton, a member of HFF’s executive committee, is overseeing the Denver office expansion from HFF’s Dallas office.

Tupler, a former vice chairman at CBRE Capital Markets, has originated, structured, underwritten, placed and closed more than $6 billion of debt and equity real estate investments during his career. Tupler was the firm’s top Denver sales professional and the leader of the Denver capital markets group prior to his departure from CBRE.

Also joining Tupler at HFF are directors Brock Cannon and Josh Simon, both former vice presidents at CBRE Capital Markets. Cannon will work as part of HFF’s national loan sale advisory group alongside Fallon. Cannon began his career in Houston, working in the CBRE Capital Markets headquarters and his experience includes debt and equity originations, loan servicing and loan sales.

“Although HFF has consummated a number of high-profile debt and investment sales assignments in the Denver MSA, HFF has waited for the best people to open an office and expand into the Denver market. We are excited about the opportunity to better serve our existing and future clients in the Rocky Mountain region with the team of Tupler, Cannon, Simon and Fallon as well as the numerous opportunities they will create with their presence in Denver,” says Thornton in a prepared statement. “As with our recently opened offices in Austin and Tampa, HFF’s goal is to strategically build-out the full platform of services and product specializations in our new Denver office by hiring and retaining associates who have the highest ethical standards and the best reputation in the industry.”

Sean Deasy, co-head of the Orange County office, says that McCann “is a perfect fit for HFF’s growing west coast investment sales platform, which has grown by more than a dozen producers in the last few years.”

McCann has 22 years of institutional real estate investment management experience and joins HFF from Adanac Realty Advisors where he held the position of principal since 2009.  Prior to Adanac, he worked at ING Clarion Partners where he sourced, structured, and closed approximately $3.5 billion of direct real estate investments, and established Clarion’s southern California office in 2004. 

His experience also includes senior roles in asset management, acquisitions, and development at Kennedy Associates Real Estate Counsel, Birtcher Property Services and Bentall Development Co. 

“After an extensive search, we are very excited to have Mike join the firm. His institutional ownership experience and broad real estate knowledge will enable HFF to expand our client offering in the West,” explains Ryan Gallagher co-head of HFF’s Orange County office. 

Categories: West, Industrial, Office, Capital Markets, Orange County